Geoffrey Canada is sending babies to college. Although it's actually their parents attending, and technically it's not college, it is almost as ambitious. Baby College is a critical training program for inner city parents that aims to stop the cycle of poverty. The "college" teaches good parenting skills that most middle and upper class parents already know-how to discipline your child and the importance of reading to him or her every night.
By starting these programs at infancy, and continuing them to college, Canada hopes that this will be the "tipping point" in the fight against urban poverty. This idea follows the idea in my previous post-that education must start early (before preschool). It's working. He has the statistics and a book (Whatever it Takes by Paul Tough) to prove it.
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