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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America Paperback - 2009
by Tough, Paul
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Geoffrey Canada created the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem, to help change the lives of poor children. Tough presents an inspired portrait of Canada and the parents and children who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds.
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- Title Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
- Author Tough, Paul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, New York
- Date 2009
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0547247966
- ISBN 9780547247960 / 0547247966
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Poverty - New York (State) - New York -, African American children - Education - New
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009289780
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.748
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Summary
What would it take?
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor childrennot one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their livestheir schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.
Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor childrennot one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their livestheir schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.
Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.