Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, (Paperback)

from ohernaes

Good review of American schooling debates, including research. The successes and failures of Geoffrey Canada's efforts to set up educational services in Harlem. He had an ambition to change everything at once. Maybe this is called for, but a particular danger with that approach is that it makes i...

from nbmars

Earlier this year I read Work Hard, Be Nice which describes the development of the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Charter Schools. This book concerns a similar but even more radical approach to the problem of educating underprivileged students, and the one endorsed by President Obama: The Harl...

from girl1der

This book tells the story of the education activist Geoffrey Canada and the development of his Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a prebirth-18 series of programs designed to improve the educational opportunities and experience of disadvantaged children in Harlem. It's a balanced outsider's look at th...

from tjsjohanna

Mr. Tough takes an unflinching look at one man (Geoffrey Canada) and his quest to lift an entire area of Harlem from the unrelenting poverty that currently afflicts it. What I found so admirable was Mr. Canada's unwillingness to leave anyone behind, and his unrelenting work towards that aim, usin...

from klburnside

I saw this book on a shelf at the bookstore and picked it up because it was praised by Ira Glass on the cover. I then turned it over and saw additional praise from Dave Eggers and Michael Pollan. I figured it was worth a read. The book is about a community based set of programs in Harlem designed...