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What would it not take?
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself requesting. What would it not take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big volumes, and in a way that could be replicated countrywide? The question led him to generate the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is screening new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in the us. His bottom line: if you need poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to improve everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing techniques with their parents.
Whatever It Takes is a head to de force of reporting, an encouraged family portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but also of the parents and children in Harlem who are attempting to better their lives, often against great probabilities. Carefully investigated and deeply impacting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and possibly transformative social experiment of our time.
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself requesting. What would it not take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big volumes, and in a way that could be replicated countrywide? The question led him to generate the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is screening new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in the us. His bottom line: if you need poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to improve everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing techniques with their parents.
Whatever It Takes is a head to de force of reporting, an encouraged family portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but also of the parents and children in Harlem who are attempting to better their lives, often against great probabilities. Carefully investigated and deeply impacting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and possibly transformative social experiment of our time.
