It takes a school : the extraordinary story of an American school in the world's #1 failed state
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New York : Henry Holt & Co., c2016.
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Published
New York : Henry Holt & Co., c2016.
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Book
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xvi, 250 pages ; 24 cm
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English

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An American hedge fund manager describes how he founded a unique school in Somaliland and overcame profound cultural differences, broken promises, and threats to his safety to create a school whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve extraordinary success.
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Jonathan Starr, once a successful hedge fund manager, is not your traditional do-gooder, and in 2009 when he decided to found Abaarso, a secondary school in Somaliland, the choice seemed crazy to even his closest friends. "Why," they wondered, "would he turn down a life of relative luxury to relocate to an armed compound in a breakaway region of the world's number one failed state?" To achieve his mission, Starr would have to overcome profound cultural differences, broken promises, and threats to his safety and that of his staff. [This book] is the story of how an abstract vision became a transformative reality, as Starr set out to build a school in a place forgotten by the world. It is the story of a skeptical and clan-based society learning to give way to trust. And it's the story of the students themselves, including a boy from a family of nomads who took off on his own in search of an education and a girl who waged a hunger strike in order to convince her strict parents to send her to Abaarso. Abaarso has placed forty graduates and counting in American universities, from Harvard to MIT, and sends Somaliland a clear message: its children can compete with anyone in the world. Now the initial question Starr was asked demands another: "If such a success can happen in an unrecognized breakaway region of Somalia, why can't it happen everywhere?"--From dust jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Starr, J. (2016). It takes a school: the extraordinary story of an American school in the world's #1 failed state (First edition). Henry Holt & Co..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Starr, Jonathan, 1976-. 2016. It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State. Henry Holt & Co.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Starr, Jonathan, 1976-. It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State Henry Holt & Co, 2016.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Starr, Jonathan. It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State First edition, Henry Holt & Co., 2016.

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