| Description |
296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-285) and index. |
| Contents |
The lottery -- Unequal childhoods -- Baby college -- Contamination -- Battle mode -- Bad apples -- Last chance -- The conveyor belt -- Escape velocity -- Graduation -- What would it take? |
| Summary |
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 Geoffrey Canada 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. |
| Local Subject |
Poor people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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| Subject |
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
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Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York -- Prevention.
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African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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Canada, Geoffrey.
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African American children -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York.
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| ISBN |
9780618569892 |
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0618569898 |
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