Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

What would it take? That was the question Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children not one by one but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America....

Social policy and particular groups --- Educational sciences --- New York City --- African American children --- Poor --- Poverty --- Amerika --- armoede --- charterscholen --- Geoffrey Canada --- Haarlem --- New York --- onderwijs --- opvoeding --- Zone Harlem children's project --- Afro-American children --- Children, African American --- Negro children --- Children --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Education --- Social conditions --- Prevention --- Economic conditions --- Canada, Geoffrey. --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Harlem, New York (City) --- Economic conditions. --- New York City [New York]