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Whatever it takes : Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America
Title:
Whatever it takes : Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America
Author:
Tough, Paul.
Personal Author:
Tough, Paul.
Edition:
First Mariner Books edition.
Publication Information:
Boston : Mariner Books, 2009.

©2008
Physical Description:
310 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
General Note:
"With a new afterword"--Cover.
Language:
English
Contents:
The lottery -- Unequal childhoods -- Baby college -- Contamination -- Battle mode -- Bad apples -- Last chance -- The conveyor belt -- Escape velocity -- Graduation -- What would it take?
Personal Subject:
Canada, Geoffrey.
Subject Term:
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.
Geographic Term:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
ISBN:
9780547247960
Format :
Book

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