(NAME-MCE) Quality education as a civil right

[Bill Howe]

Quality education as a civil right



In an article in the Harvard Educational Review, Dr. Robert P. Moses, civil
rights activist and founder of The Algebra Project, gives a history of the
early civil rights movement in Mississippi. He focuses on the individuals,
alliances, and strategies that forged social change in the United States,
ultimately leading to the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. He
describes how the efforts of Justice Department officials working from the
"top" of society paralleled the day-to-day work of sharecroppers and
organizers at the "bottom" to challenge Jim Crow, fundamentally altering
civil rights in this country. Moses likens the struggles then to
contemporary efforts to bring quality education to all children nationwide.
As he is again working from the bottom of today's movement for educational
equality via his organization -- which teaches math in underserved
communities -- he calls on President Obama to provide the leadership needed
at the top to ensure further and critical change.

Read more:
http://her.hepg.org/content/937m754251521231/?p=d861fc90968f4c529384e4b25e5a6195&pi=14


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