A review by punky77
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough

5.0

I really enjoyed this book because it gave a deeper insight into the constraints of poverty and how one person believed that those constraints were not an excuse for children to either receive a poor education or give a poor effort towards their own education. What is frustrating to me is that it seems to take a charter school framework to address these issues in such a meticulous fashion...public schools should be able to build, implement and sustain all of these same interventions, but must be given the leeway to get it done...meaning, less time fulfilling federal and state mandates and more time building a program that will serve the needs of their own kids.