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Whatever it takes Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America

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 neighb...

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Main Author: Tough, Paul.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Subjects:
Canada, Geoffrey.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • The lottery
  • Unequal childhoods
  • Baby college
  • Contamination
  • Battle mode
  • Bad apples
  • Last chance
  • The conveyor belt
  • Escape velocity
  • Graduation
  • What would it take?

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