Quality Education as a Constitutional Right : Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Publi...
ISBN: 9780807032824 | 0807032824
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pub. Date: 6/29/2010
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In 2005, legendary civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for a campaign to guarantee a quality education for all children as a civil right-a movement that would "transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield results for our children." The response was overwhelming, and people literally started organizing on the spot. This book-emerging directly from that effort-starts with a fierce, eloquent call by Moses for a new approach to school reform. He argues that the crisis in public education for children of color won"t be solved by bureaucratic fixes, but-like the crisis in political citizenship in the 1950s and 1960s-only by a grassroots popular movement on the model of the civil rights movement. Latino organizer Ernesto Cortes tells us about the realities of organizing based on the success stories of grassroots change in Texas. Lisa Delpit shows us the key features of culturally grounded quality education. Other eminent educational, historical, and legal experts lend their voices to this pathbreaking book.
| Introductions The Historical and Contemporary Foundations for Robert Moses's Call to Make Quality Education a Constitutionally Guaranteed Right | p. vii |
| ôThe Holy Cause of Educationö: Lessons from the History of a Freedom-Loving People | p. xvi |
| Organizing: The Youth Shall Lead the Way | |
| Miss Baker's Grandchildren: An Interview with the Baltimore Algebra Project | p. 3 |
| Can the Constitution Guarantee Quality Education? | |
| Reading, Writing, and Rights: Ruminations on Getting the Law in Line with Educational Justice | p. 33 |
| Schools That Shock the Conscience: What Williams v. California Reveals about the Struggle for an Education on Equal Terms Fifty Years after Brown | p. 49 |
| Constitutional Property v. Constitutional People | p. 70 |
| Quality Education as a Civil Right: Reflections | p. 93 |
| Pursuing Excellence in a Context of Inequities | |
| Stepping Stories: Creating an African American Community of Readers | p. 109 |
| Is This School? | p. 132 |
| Stories of Collaboration and Research within an Algebra Project Context: Offering Quality Education to Students Pushed to the Bottom of Academic Achievement | p. 146 |
| Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Lessons from Teachers | p. 167 |
| Contributors | p. 189 |
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Robert Moses is the author of Radical Equations (Beacon / 3127-8 / $16.00 pb). Ernésto Cortes Jr. is director of the Southwest Regional Industrial Areas Foundation. Theresa Perry is professor of Africana studies and education at Simmons College and author of Young, Gifted, and Black (Beacon / 3105-6 / $16.00 pb). Lisa Delpit is director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Georgia State University and author of Other People’s Children.
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