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The Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) is a non-profit organization for poverty-stricken children and families living in Harlem, providing free support in the form of parenting workshops, a pre-school program, three public charter schools, and child-oriented health programs for thousands of children and families. The HCZ is "aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and families it serves." In part because not enough time has passed, there is not evidence available that the HCZ achieves its central goal. The Harlem Children's Zone Project has expanded the HCZ's comprehensive system of programs to nearly 100 blocks of Central Harlem and aims to keep children on track through college and into the job market. The HCZ and its promotion as a model of education to aspire to, especially in the recent documentary ''Waiting for "Superman",'' have been criticized as an example of the privatization of education in the U.S.〔(An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform ) by Rick Ayers, ''The Huffington Post'', September 17, 2010〕 University of San Francisco Adjunct Professor in Education, Rick Ayers writes that ''Waiting for "Superman"'' "never mentions the tens of millions of dollars of private money that has poured into the Harlem Children's Zone, the model and superman we are relentlessly instructed to aspire to."〔 One year after this film was made, the Grassroots Education Movement〔(Grassroots Education Movement (NYC) )〕 made a film titled ''The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman'', which accused the original film of exaggerating the success of the HCZ. The Obama administration announced a Promise Neighborhoods program, which hopes to replicate the success〔Focusing on Results in Promise Neighborhoods: Recommendations for the Federal Initiative. A Discussion Paper by Harlem Children's Zone, The Center for the Study of Social Policy, & PolicyLink. Authors: Betina Jean Louis, Frank Farrow, Lisbeth Schorr, Judith Bell, & Kay Fernandez Smith〕 of the HCZ in poverty-stricken areas of other U.S. cities. In the summer of 2010, the U.S. Department of Education's Promise Neighborhoods program accepted applications from over 300 communities for $10 million in federal grants for developing HCZ implementation plans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.5136647/k.3BB1/Creating_Promise_Neighborhoods.htm )〕 ==Principles and programs== The HCZ designs, funds, and operates a holistic system of education, social-services and community-building programs in Harlem to counter the negative influences of crime, drugs and poverty and help children complete college and go on to the job market.〔 Providing this "full network of services... to an entire neighborhood from birth to college" is a key element of the Obama administration's Promise Neighborhoods program modeled after the HCZ.〔 The two fundamental principles of The Zone Project are to help kids as early in their lives as possible and to create a critical mass of adults around them who understand what it takes to help children succeed.〔 Components of the HCZ programs include the following:〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.hcz.org/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Harlem Children's Zone )〕 * The Baby College, a series of workshops for parents of children ages 0–3 * All-day pre-kindergarten * Extended-day charter schools (Promise Academy)〔(hczpromiseacademy.org )〕 * Health clinics and community centers for children and adults during after-school, weekend and summer hours * Youth violence prevention efforts * Social services such as a foster-care prevention service * College admissions and retention support 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harlem Children's Zone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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