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Quality education as a constitutional right : creating a grassroots movement to transform public schools / edited by Theresa Perry [and others].

Boston : Beacon Press, ©2010.

xxii, 192 pages ; 22 cm

"In 2005, famed 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 constitutional 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 passionate, and the meeting launched a movement. This book-emerging directly from that effort-reports on what has happened since and calls for a new scale of organizing, legal initiatives, and public definitions of what a quality education is."--Google Books viewed June 4, 2021.

Educational equalization -- United States.

Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Mainstreaming in education -- United States.

Educational innovations -- United States.

Perry, Theresa.

Includes bibliographical references.

The historical and contemporary foundations for Robert Moses's call to make quality education a constitutionally guaranteed right / Theresa Perry -- The holy cause of education : lessons from the history of a freedom-loving people / Linda Mizell -- Miss Baker's grandchildren : an interview with the Baltimore Algebra Project / Charles M. Payne -- Reading, writing and rights : ruminations on getting the law in line with educational justice / Imani Perry -- Schools that shock the conscience : what Williams v. California reveals about the struggle for an education on equal terms fifty years after Brown / Jeannie Oakes -- Constitutional property v. Constitutional people / Robert P. Moses -- Quality education as a civil right : reflections / Ernest Cortés Jr. -- Stepping stories : creating an African American community of readers / Kimberly N. Parker -- Is this school? / Alicia Carroll -- Stories of collaboration and research within an algebra project context : offering quality education to students pushed to the bottom of academic achievement / Joan T. Wynne and Janice Giles -- Culturally responsive pedagogies : lessons from teachers / Lisa Delpit.

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