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New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough''s Whatever It Takes is one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa (The Washington Post).

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 forc

Whatever It Takes

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    A Paperback / softback by Paul Tough

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      Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
      Published 10 September 2009
      ISBN-13 9780547247960
      978-0547247960
      ISBN-10 0547247966
      Also in:
      Social and cultural history Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Social welfare, social policy and social services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough''s Whatever It Takes is one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa (The Washington Post).

      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 forc

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