false 1186184 2 4 Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America. He is an editor at the New York Times Magazine, where he has written extensively about education, poverty and politics, including cover stories on the Harlem Children’s Zone, the post-Katrina school system in New Orleans, and No Child Left Behind and charter schools. He has worked as an editor at Harper’s Magazine and as the founding editor of Open Letters, an online magazine of first-person correspondence, and as a reporter and producer for the public-radio program “This American Life," where he reported, most recently, on the parents enrolled in the Harlem Children Zone's Baby College. His writing has appeared in Slate, Esquire, GQ, and the New Yorker. He lives with his wife in New York City. For more information, please visit his web site or his book blog.]]> male Toronto 1526300 3245249 0618569898 9780618569892 169 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/32/249/3245249-m-1255715830.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/32/249/3245249-s-1255715830.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3245249.Whatever_It_Takes_Geoffrey_Canada_s_Quest_to_Change_Harlem_and_America 4.24 509 potentially transformative social experiment of our time

Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children whose
bold approach to inner-city poverty has been called by Barack
Obama "an all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving
a generation of children." Canada's radical new idea: if you really want
to change the lives of poor children, you have to change everything --
their schools, their families, their neighborhoods -- all at once.

Paul Tough gained exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to Geoffrey
Canada as the Harlem Children's Zone grew to become a $58-million-a-
year organization, encompassing 97 city blocks and reaching more
than 7,000 children. In Tough's inspired portrait, sure to be as deeply
influential as Tracy Kidder's of Paul Farmer, Canada shares center stage
with the parents and children of Harlem as they hopefully, anxiously
enter a "conveyor belt" of integrated programs, from Baby College to
Harlem Gems to Promise Academy.

There's Victor Boria, nineteen, who enters Baby College on the
verge of breaking up with his pregnant teenage girlfriend -- and then,
nine weeks later, proposes to her onstage in front of a jubilant crowd.
And there's Wilma Jure, waiting and praying that her four-year-old
niece, whose mother is homeless, will win a spot in Canada's new
kindergarten class. Finally,Tough vividly describes Canada's passion
for change and how it is playing out in real time -- as educators and
policymakers from across the country keenly watch. Whatever It Takes
is a tour de force of suspenseful and brilliantly informed reporting.]]> 1186184 4.24 512 171 2008 2705807 0805012796 9780805012798 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2705807.What_counts_The_complete_Harper_s_index 0.0 0 1186184 4.24 512 171 1991