What Can Milwaukee Learn from Harlem?

Today I'm interviewing Geoffrey Canada, the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, which is an area in New York's Harlem, encompassing about 10,000 children who are part of an educational experiment that aims to help poor children succeed in school and in life. The zone includes not just a charter school called the "Promise Academy," but free social, medical and educational services.

"If your child comes to this school, we will guarantee that we will get your child into college," Canada says.

Wisconsin has applied for federal funding to include a Milwaukee Children's Zone in our state's "Race to the Top," application.

Find out more this week on "Here and Now" airing Friday night at 7:30pm on Wisconsin Public Television.