The Cleveland Plain Dealer reviews Whatever It Takes, calling the book “a suspenseful thriller with an ending yet to be determined.”
Archive for September, 2008
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Slate
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Sara Mosle reviews Whatever It Takes for Slate:
Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes is an inspirational story about one man’s efforts to boost educational achievement in New York City’s Harlem. The book is also a sobering tale of how such good intentions, alone, are often not enough. Put the two together, and you have everything you need to know not only about inner-city education, poverty, and charter schools but about the realism that is essential to ambitious reform.
Whatever It Takes: the Soundtrack
Monday, September 8th, 2008A reader from L.A. passes along this well-titled Ron Sexsmith song:
The embargo is broken!
Monday, September 8th, 2008
A kind reader in Oxford, Mississippi, sends this iPhone photo of the precise moment of a book sale.
Obama on the Harlem Children’s Zone
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Alex Tehrani
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
The photographs in Whatever It Takes are by a gifted photographer/journalist named Alex Tehrani. (This is Cheryl Waite, at the time a 17-year-old mom-to-be going through Baby College.) For a selection of photos from the book, see this gallery. For more of Alex’s work, check out his web site.
HCZ’s new website
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Obama and the Harlem Children’s Zone
Saturday, September 6th, 2008I’ve got an article in today’s New York Times Magazine about Geoffrey Canada and Barack Obama and the education schism inside the Democratic Party.
Brooklyn Book Festival
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Next Sunday at 11 a.m., Geoff Canada and I will appear together at the Brooklyn Book Festival, reading and talking and answering questions.
Thurston Moore will also be there, though I don’t think he’s on our panel.
Welcome
Saturday, September 6th, 2008For the month of September, I’m blogging about various issues over at Slate.
So for now, at least, this blog will be issue-less. Just about book news.
Specifically, news about Whatever It Takes.
Thanks for visiting.