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What would it take?
That was once the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one at a time, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way which may 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 from time to time controversial ideas about poverty in The usa. His conclusion: if you want poor kids in an effort to compete with their middle-class peers, you want 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 of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, steadily against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, it is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.
That was once the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one at a time, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way which may 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 from time to time controversial ideas about poverty in The usa. His conclusion: if you want poor kids in an effort to compete with their middle-class peers, you want 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 of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, steadily against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, it is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.
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