These schools have found ways to get children interested in learning and push them to forge ahead with their schooling. A moment later, they are ready to share, hands of all shades shooting into the air. In braids, cornrows and dreadlocks, they come from a neighborhood that, once the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, is now mostly a dead end. Against all expectations, these students come to sow a dream, and the Frederick Douglass Academy helps them reap it. They almost quiver as they wait to be called on.
Every arm is up in the air.
Transylvania, Switzerland and India. Push for literacy helps parents help their children NEW YORK - Gilda Brandman walks her fingers through a pile of books, searching for the perfect volume. She grimaces and shakes her head, still searching. You know, I think they are all gone. Facing each other across long tables arranged in a square, the students weigh the question solemnly and without embarrassment.