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“For children to do well, their families have to do well. And for families to do well, their community must do well. The Harlem Children Zone (HCZ) works to strengthen families as well as empowering them to have a positive impact on their child’s development.”


In reading the article from Harlem Children Zone (HCZ), “Winning the War on Poverty through Education” by Geoffrey Canada sparked my interest. What seemed relevant to my professional development are his thoughts on how we could abandoned poverty and overcome it. Starting now to the next five years Canada believes we need to reform the bureaucracy, end the public school monopoly, attract and retain more great teachers, make teaching and learning full-time jobs, and create incentives for excellent teachers. Through Canada beliefs, Canada states “the casualties and ghosts of the abandoned war on poverty sit in our classrooms, walk our streets and waste away in our prisons. This is truly the American Nightmare: impoverished, uneducated and unemployable amid a land of plenty. What made me think about the issue in a new way is that we can continue to ignore them and pay the price or we can call up the nation’s capital and resolve the country’s war on poverty. In relation to the economics, science and policies, if we win poverty we could eliminate crime and violence, drug treatment and welfare and focus on the getting families and children out of poverty. New insights about issues and trends in early childhood field that I gained from exploring the website is HCZ continues to offer innovative efficiently programs that are aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of poverty for the children and families they serves.