Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009SRQ0N2
Publish date: September 10th 2009
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
African American,
Teaching,
Education,
Politics,
Sociology,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
Ironically Paul Tough was a little tough on the parents he portrays in the Harlem Children's Zone and in my opinion, helps to promote stereotypes around dress, household composition and styles of speech. That I didn't like. With that said, he does do an excellent job of describing the incredible dri...
Geoffrey Canada is a teacher who came up against the most-difficult-to-educate group of kids a teacher can face: kids who grew up in poverty, with broken homes, surrounded by drugs and guns and alcohol. But Canada was not daunted by this group. As a child, he grew up in the same world and, somehow, ...