(NAME-MCE) Online Discussion on Math and Social Justice Begins Wednesday

[Tara Mack]

talkin 'bout.math and social justice
starts tomorrow (Wednesday, March 19) 
 <http://www.edliberation.org/talkin-bout>
www.edliberation.org/talkin-bout
 
a public, online discussion about how math education can be used to
forward social justice and how social justice can be used to improve
math education
 
presented by the  <http://www.edliberation.org/> Education for
Liberation Network
 
talkin' bout is an online discussion series that brings together
educators, activists and youth to participate in a public conversation
on the network website about timely and important topics in liberatory
education. From Wednesday, March 19 to Thursday, March 20 a panel that
includes Algebra Project founder Bob Moses and RadicalMath.org founder
Jonathan Osler will answer questions posted to an online discussion
board about math and social justice. The conversation will take place on
the website of the  <http://www.edliberation.org/> Education for
Liberation Network.
 
talkin 'bout.math and social justice is linked to the upcoming national
conference,  <http://www.radicalmath.org/conference> Creating Balance in
an Unjust World. Creating Balance provides a unique space in which
educators can come together to explore questions, challenges, and
opportunities to work for social and economic justice through
mathematics and math education. This conference is sponsored by
<http://www.radicalmath.org/> Radical Math and
<http://www.liunet.edu/liu_start.html> Long Island University.
 
The panelists are:
*	Bob Moses, Founder and President of the
<http://www.algebra.org/> Algebra Project. Author of Radical Equations
and former Civil Rights Movement organizer.
*	Jonathan Osler, who taught math at El Puente Academy for Peace &
Justice for six years and is currently a math coach in Los Angeles. He
is the founder of RadicalMath.org and an organizer of the
<http://www.radicalmath.org/conference> Creating Balance in an Unjust
World conference on math & social justice.
*	Darnisha Hill, a junior at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village
School for Social Justice in Chicago and a member of the school's
"mathematics for social justice" team. As part of the team, Darnisha
participated in five regional and national conferences to present their
work and research. 
*	Patricia Buenrostro, who has taught high school mathematics for
10 years in Chicago. Currently she is pursuing a PhD at the University
of Illinois at Chicago in Curriculum. Her research interests are math
and social justice, community engagement in schools, and teacher
professional development in mathematics reform. 
*	Saara Nafici, Projects Coordinator for the Neighborhood Economic
Development Advocacy Project in New York. She provides technical support
to community groups, collaborates on GIS mapping projects, engages in
coalition organizing and organizes the annual Community Reinvestment
Workshop Series.  
Also available on the website are
<http://www.edliberation.org/talkin-bout> samples of social justice math
lesion plans.
 
The network invites all those interested in this important issue to post
their own questions and comments for the panelists and for each other.
Anyone can read the discussion without registering. To post, first you
must  <http://www.edliberation.org/join_form> register to use the site. 
 
We hope this will be an enlightening and lively digital conversation. 
 

The  <http://www.edliberation.org/> Education for Liberation Network is
a national coalition of teachers, community activists, youth,
researchers and parents who believe a good education should teach
people-particularly low-income youth and youth of color-to understand
and challenge the injustices their communities face.
<http://www.edliberation.org/join-us> Click here (
<http://www.edliberation.org/join-us> www.edliberation.org/join-us) to
join the network listserv. For more information contact Tara Mack,
Director, Education for Liberation Network on
<mailto:tara at edliberation.org> tara at edliberation.org.


Read about the Education for Liberation Network in The Nation magazine:
( <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080225/doster>
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080225/doster).