false 3245249 3 A page-turning dispatch from inside the most daring and<BR>potentially transformative social experiment of our time<BR><BR>Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children whose<BR>bold approach to inner-city poverty has been called by Barack<BR>Obama "an all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving<BR>a generation of children." Canada's radical new idea: if you really want<BR>to change the lives of poor children, you have to change everything --<BR>their schools, their families, their neighborhoods -- all at once.<BR><BR>Paul Tough gained exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to Geoffrey<BR>Canada as the Harlem Children's Zone grew to become a $58-million-a-<BR>year organization, encompassing 97 city blocks and reaching more<BR>than 7,000 children. In Tough's inspired portrait, sure to be as deeply<BR>influential as Tracy Kidder's of Paul Farmer, Canada shares center stage<BR>with the parents and children of Harlem as they hopefully, anxiously<BR>enter a "conveyor belt" of integrated programs, from Baby College to<BR>Harlem Gems to Promise Academy.<BR><BR>There's Victor Boria, nineteen, who enters Baby College on the<BR>verge of breaking up with his pregnant teenage girlfriend -- and then,<BR>nine weeks later, proposes to her onstage in front of a jubilant crowd.<BR>And there's Wilma Jure, waiting and praying that her four-year-old<BR>niece, whose mother is homeless, will win a spot in Canada's new<BR>kindergarten class. Finally,Tough vividly describes Canada's passion<BR>for change and how it is playing out in real time -- as educators and<BR>policymakers from across the country keenly watch. Whatever It Takes<BR>is a tour de force of suspenseful and brilliantly informed reporting. 3280003 10 9 2008 Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America total:467|5:182|4:219|3:63|2:3|1:0| 467 1981 1101 166 4 2 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 13:43:52 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 20:21:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 2 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 11:15:23 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 18:42:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 06:28:43 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 06:32:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Feb 03 13:22:32 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 13:31:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 27 07:27:46 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 17:56:15 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:27:46 -0800 2009 I think Canada is a fascinating figure-- idealisti...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Oct 16 10:57:40 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 01 09:54:32 -0800 2009 This American Life. Then Geoffrey Canada appeared on both This I Believe and Eight Forty-Eight on November 6, 2008.more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 20:44:22 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 20:44:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 27 17:00:28 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 17:44:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 26 01:50:43 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 02:02:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 09:22:12 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 09:28:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 24 10:41:25 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 10:41:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 14:18:21 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 14:36:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 22:34:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 11:44:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 21:45:58 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 10:24:19 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 11:07:31 -0800 2009
Geoffrey Canada, the organization's director, is attempting to transform a 100 square blo...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Sep 11 08:18:15 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 09:33:38 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 08:18:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 12:38:45 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 14:32:31 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:38:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 09:13:22 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 15:06:50 -0700 2009 Mountains Beyond Mountains of ed reform. It's a compelling look at Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, told by a journalist who has clearly lived and breathed his subject for many months.
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