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Education begins in the classroom, but schools need an entire community--students, teachers, parents, local businesses and neighbors--to work together to help children succeed. Most of all, schools need a leader, and that is why in New York City, one of the cornerstones of school reform has been a training program for a new generation of principals. It is called the NYC Leadership Academy, and its first graduates are now leading some of the city's most challenging schools...
...relatively small number of black male principals who can serve as role models to a student population that is overwhelmingly black or Hispanic. "These kids don't see themselves past 21," he says. "I know that for them to see me here helps them believe that they can succeed...
...work like a chessboard. Each child is our king. We have to work to protect him and checkmate the forces of failure. This world is so harsh to children. I see myself as the keeper of the dream that is in every child, and I know we can succeed. That is my blessed hope...
...Junior Achievement Junior Achievement is a non-profit organization that connects volunteers with students in grades K-12. Through in-class activities, after-school programs and workplace experiences, students build up the confidence they need to succeed in their future careers. www.ja.org...
...Venezuela's largest telephone and electricity firms, while pushing his rubber-stamp Congress to allow him to run for re-election indefinitely and rule by decree well into 2008. It's no wonder Chavez watchers compare Adan to Latin America's other conspicuous First Brother, Raul Castro, who would succeed Fidel...