Video for the third, and final, event in the 2009 MN Meeting public affairs series "Raising Expectations" is not up yet, but you can see the first two meetings and read about Geoffrey Canada's address here.
An excerpt from the MinnPost.com interview with Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone, highlights the importance of starting early, and sticking with it, to close the achievement gap.
"What people mostly have done is create great early-childhood programs, and they don't do anything after. Or a great after-school program for elementary schools and then they go to lousy middle schools and there's nothing in the high schools. You've got to connect these supports so you can leverage one investment into the next investment. ..It takes time. It's not going to happen in a year or two."
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