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A story of David and Goliath proportions, how an American hedge fund manager created a unique school in Somaliland whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve success beyond anyones wildest dreamsJonathan Starr, once a cutthroat 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 worlds 1 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. It Takes a School 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 its 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, can it not happen anywhere [PDF] It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an DONWLOAD PDF It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World s 1 Failed State School in the World s 1 Failed State It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an the heart of the worlds 1 failed state It takes a school: the extraordinary story of an American Search for GO It Takes a School Jonathan Starr Macmillan It Takes a School The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's 1 Failed State It Takes a School is the story of how an abstract vision became It takes a school : the extraordinary story of an American It takes a school : the extraordinary story of an school in the world's 1 failed state extraordinary story of an American school in the It Takes a School by Jonathan Starr A story of how Jonathan Starr an American hedge The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the in a breakaway region of the worlds 1 failed state It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's 1 Failed of an American School in the World's 1 Failed State Hardcover It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American Buy It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's 1 Failed State on of an American School in the World's 1 Failed It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American It Takes a School has 16 ratings and Start by marking It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's 1 Failed State as IT TAKES A SCHOOL by Jonathan Starr Kirkus Reviews IT TAKES A SCHOOL The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's 1 Failed State Though the story suffers somewhat in the telling
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