Paul Tough - Whatever It Takes

Start: Mon, 10/12/2009 - 7:00pm

Geoffrey Canada created the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem, tohelp change the lives of poor children. Paul Tough, an editor at the New YorkTimes and one of America's foremost writers on poverty, education and theachievement gap, presents an inspired portrait of Geoffrey Canada and the parents and children who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds, in Whatever It Takes. What would it take to change the lives ofpoor 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, where heis testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.

Location:

Left Bank Books
399 N. Euclid Ave.
Saint Louis, Missouri 63108