What Ever It Takes Assignment

Policies and practices on education
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Geoffrey Canada’s experience provides first hand experience and expertise on how to deal with provision of education in impoverished places. The choice of Harlem is equally important with the urban area typical of child poverty in America. Before creating policies on how to tackle child poverty, it is necessary to highlight on the many faces of child poverty. Child poverty is a national matter, social, political, ideological, and personal matter.
Race and class are intertwined with the quality of education in America. Canada’s own experience in Harlem Children’s Zone shows that the community should believe in excellence for there to be success in intervention.
Early intervention, by first identifying that there is a problem that needs to be fixed should be a priority early on. Thus, the programs to be established ought to be comprehensive and ensure that poor people in urban areas gain education.
The creation of an appropriate program requires that the curriculum formulated takes into account the experiences of a community.
Community sensitization, before rolling out programs facilitates informed decision making by parents as well as offer support services
Hence, the program should highlight on the need to educate all children in a community, this would create a safety net that would eventually to positive change in that community.
Targeting children at young ages will facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive program that ensures that the children are more likely to succeed later on.
The policies adopted begin targeting from the early years of the children, but extend to their university level as this ensures that there is no gap in the educ...