Education reformer challenges community to save its children

Geoffrey Canada has a theory: If you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change their schools, neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents. Second Wave editor Kathy Jennings shares the evidence suggesting nothing short of the nation's future may depend on it.

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