and i'm going to help you do that." >> ♪ i can do it, i can do it. >> cooper: to do it, geoffrey canadahool in the children's zone. right now, there are some 1,200 kids enrolled from kindergarten through the tenth grade. it'll eventually expand all the way through the 12th grade. >> canada: we've created a school to help you all become the smartest boys and girls in the country. >> cooper: it's a charter school, so canada is able to run it his way, free from the bureaucracy and restrictions of the public school system. there's one adult for every six students, classes are smaller and school days longer. kids come in on saturdays. and summer vacation? that only lasts three weeks. >> we will always ask permission before leaving the group. >> cooper: discipline is strict, and so is the dress code. to teach kids healthy eating habits, there are cooking classes using ingredients from the school's own organic garden. and if any of the kids get sick, this on-site clinic provides free medical, mental health, and even dental care. canada calls his school the promise academy, and this is what he

for geoffrey canada, however, it is just a start. >> geoffrey canada: you grow up in america, and you'reold from day one, this is the land of opportunity, that everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. and then you look at places like harlem, and you say, "that is absolutely a lie." >> cooper: so you're trying to level the playing field between kids here in harlem and what, middle class kids in a suburb? >> canada: that's exactly what we think we have to do. you know, if you grow up in a community where your schools are inferior, where the sounds of gunshots are a common thing, where you spend your time and energy not thinking about algebra or geometry, but about how not to get beat up or not to get shot or not to get raped-- when you grow up like that, you don't have the same opportunity as other children growing up, and we're trying to change those odds. >> cooper: he's trying to change those odds on a scale never before attempted. his goal-- to break the cycle of poverty in an entire neighborhood by making sure all the kids who live there go to college. >> ♪ that's wha