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This 3 page paper discusses the book “Whatever It Takes” by Paul Tough, about Geoffrey Canada’s revolutionary ideas to help poor children succeed in school. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a man named Geoffrey Canada who decided to do something about it. Discussion Geoffrey Canadas interest in helping poor children stems from 1990, when he became president of a "nonprofit
charitable organization based in Harlem called the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families" (Tough). At first, Canada tried to improve childrens lives one at a time, but soon realized that
the problem was much worse than that, and needed a bolder solution (Tough). During his years at Rheedlen, much of his efforts went into simply keeping the children alive (Tough).
But that wasnt enough, and he got an incredible idea: to give the kids a chance by changing the entire system (Tough). He started to wonder why, if some kids
"overcame the odds," all kids couldnt do so; he decided if they couldnt beat the odds, maybe it was time to change the odds themselves (Tough). "Experts in his field
had figured out how to educate one disadvantaged child, or one classroom full of kids, but the benefits were localized, and usually temporary. And no one had any idea how
to change a whole school system or a whole housing project, or for that matter a whole neighborhood" (Tough). But that is precisely what Canada decided to do (Tough). He
started with "a 24-block zone of central Harlem" that he named the "Harlem Childrens Zone" (Tough). The area included 6,500 children, "more than 60 percent of whom live below the
poverty line and three-quarters of whom score below grade level on statewide reading and math tests" (Tough). He set out to create schools and a system within that community that
would educate all the children-not just some of them; he dreamed of sending them all to college, and it looks like he just may succeed. The debate over education is
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