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  • Tough, Paul.
     
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  • Canada, Geoffrey.
     
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  • Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York -- Prevention.
     
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  • African American children -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York.
     
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  • African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
     
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  • Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
     
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  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
     
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    Whatever it takes : Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America / Paul Tough.
    by Tough, Paul.
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    Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
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  • Canada, Geoffrey.
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  • Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York -- Prevention.
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  • African American children -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York.
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  • African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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  • Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
  • ISBN: 
    9780618569892 :
    0618569898 :
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    296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
    Contents: 
    The lottery -- Unequal childhoods -- Baby college -- Contamination -- Battle mode -- Bad apples -- Last chance -- The conveyor belt -- Escape velocity -- Graduation -- What would it take?
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    An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new 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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