Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Tough, Paul

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

CHF 27.68

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

CHF 27.68
Author: Paul Tough
Format: Paperback
Language: English
New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa" (The Washington Post).

What would it take?

That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children -- not 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 lives -- their 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 also 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.

Author: Paul Tough
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/10/2009
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780547247960

About the Author
Paul Tough is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and one of America's foremost writers on poverty, education, and the achievement gap. His reporting on Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone originally appeared as a Times Magazine cover story.

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