It Takes a School

✍ Scribed by Starr, Jonathan

• Book ID: 109650765
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 635 KB
• Series: It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250113450

✦ Synopsis

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 anyone's wildest dreams

Jonathan 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 world's #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...