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Geoffrey Canada's Quest To Change Harlem And America
Houghton Mifflin
August 2008
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Featuring: Geoffry Canada
304 pages
ISBN: 0618569898
EAN: 9780618569892
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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