Whatever It Takes
Happy Monday, Café-ers,
For this week's book club, New York Times Magazine's Paul Tough joins us to talk about his new book Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest To Change Harlem And America.
The book pivots around Geoffrey Canada, a poverty-fighting Harlem visionary-- Obama described his work once as "an all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children."-- and his work on The Harlem Children's Zone, a $58 million organization reaching out to 7,000 children.
Sort of an interesting counter-example to Sarah Palin's grassroots snark.
Discussing along with Paul: Kira Orange-Jones of Teach For America, Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America and Andy Rotherham, co-director and co-founder of the Education Sector.
Join us!
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