Geoffrey Canada

Irwin Redlener, president and co-founder of the Children's Health Fund and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, and Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, talk about their concern that children living in poverty has not gotten attention during the presidential campaign.

According to a 2009 Department of Education study, ten percent of black students and 22 percent of Hispanic students did not graduate from high school on time, compared to only six percent of white students.  A similar disparity in scores between white and minority students on national reading and math tests has remained largely the same since the mid-1990s.

Geoffrey Canada, the man behind the Harlem Children's Zone and Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America and education writer for the New York Times Magazine, discuss the most pressing education needs in the US today. ...