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Author Tough, Paul.

Title Whatever it takes : Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America / Paul Tough.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HC79.P63 T68 2008    Available  ---
Description 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-285) and index.
Contents The lottery -- Unequal childhoods -- Baby college -- Contamination -- Battle mode -- Bad apples -- Last chance -- The conveyor belt -- Escape velocity -- Graduation -- What would it take?
Summary 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.
Subject Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York -- Prevention.
Poverty.
New York (State) -- New York.
African American children -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American children -- Education.
African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
African American children.
Social conditions.
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Poor.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Canada, Geoffrey.
Canada, Geoffrey.
ISBN 9780618569892
0618569898