“The East Harlem School is about erasing inequality, about giving disadvantaged children the rigorous academic preparation that will carry them to success…”

The New York Times, 12/25/98

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“It was the East Harlem School that prepared me for life.”

Johnny Mitchell

EHS '98

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“Thanks for making my daughter's dream a reality.”

Nellie Coleman

EHS Parent

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"There's a temptation in some quarters to say young people these days are not made of the right stuff. Like most sweeping conclusions, it's vastly overstated, and we have to look no further than a deeply troubled neighborhood in New York City where two brothers, Ivan and Hans Hageman, opened the East Harlem School, a middle school for neighborhood kids with promise."

Tom Brokaw

NBC Nightly News

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