Paul Tough

Writer & Speaker

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Center for American Progress

Geoffrey Canada, Roland Fryer and I will be speaking at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., next Thursday, October 23, on a panel moderated by Robert Gordon. According to the announcement:

Policymakers have long talked about the lessons of HCZ for anti-poverty policy nationwide, and now there are proposals to replicate the HCZ model nationally. This panel brings together Geoffrey Canada, HCZ’s President and Chief Executive Officer; Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics professor and the founder of Harvard’s new Education Innovation Laboratory, a major effort to identify and evaluate promising approaches to closing the achievement gap; and Paul Tough, a New York Times Magazine editor and the author of the new book, Whatever It Takes, a critically acclaimed look at HCZ in the broader context of American poverty and education policy. They will talk about HCZ’s experience to date and its implications for national policy.


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