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Former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton famously drew on an African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child," to explain her vision for American children more than decade ago. Now the Obama administration is looking to another village -- local urban communities -- to serve the educational and social needs of children in poverty with its Promise Neighborhoods, an initiative modeled on the transformative and widely touted Harlem Children's Zone.

Read the whole article: "Program based on Harlem initiative shows promise."


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