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Social activist Geoffrey Canada will receive the Phillips Brooks House Association’s annual Robert Coles “Call of Service” Award in recognition of his community development work, PBHA announced this weekend...
...Canada, a 1975 graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, serves as President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a non-profit that combats poverty and works to close the achievement gap in a 100-block area in Harlem. The organization employs a comprehensive approach including parenting classes, charter schools, and summer programs...
...Here, we have kids from some of the most impoverished backgrounds and mostly with single parents, whose scores on standardized tests far exceed the overall scores in New York City,” Wilson said. “Canada is a visionary, and he is quite aware of the factors that contribute to positive outcomes for young kids...
...Canada will be third recipient of the “Call of Service” Award, following child advocate Marian Wright Edelman in 2007 and former Vice President Al Gore ’69 last year...
Giving a contrast between the United States and other developed democratic countries such as Great Britain and Canada, he provided constructive criticism and ideas about hate speech and dignity...