Whatever It Takes

Author: Paul Tough
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0547247966

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

What would it take?

That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. Download Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. What would it take to change the lives of poor childrenAnot 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 livesAtheir schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.

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