Whatever it takes : Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America / Paul Tough.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.Description: 296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780618569892
- 0618569898
- Poverty -- Prevention
- Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York -- Prevention
- African American children -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York
- African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
- Canada, Geoffrey
- 362.74/8097471
- HC 79 T722w 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-285) and index.
The lottery -- Unequal childhoods -- Baby college -- Contamination -- Battle mode -- Bad apples -- Last chance -- The conveyor belt -- Escape velocity -- Graduation -- What would it take?
An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.
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