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Named Person: | Geoffrey Canada; Geoffrey Canada |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Tough |
ISBN: | 0618569898 9780618569892 |
OCLC Number: | 1037202302 |
Description: | 296 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The lottery -- Unequal childhoods -- Baby college -- Contamination -- Battle mode -- Bad apples -- Last chance -- The conveyer belt -- Escape velocity -- Graduation -- What would it take? |
Responsibility: | Paul Tough. |
Abstract:
A portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada describes his radical approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.
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Related Subjects:(13)
- Canada, Geoffrey.
- Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York -- Prevention.
- African American children -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York.
- African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
- Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- African American children -- Education.
- African American children -- Social conditions.
- Economic history.
- Poor -- Social conditions.
- Poverty -- Prevention.
- New York (State) -- New York.
- New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem.