The Algebra Project
Raising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all
May 07, 2006 07:30 PM to 08:15 PM
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Biography:
In his young adult life, Mr. Moses was a pivotal organizer for the civil rights movement
as a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and
was director of SNCC’s Mississippi Project. He was a driving force behind the Mississippi
Summer Project of 1964 in organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP),
which challenged the Mississippi regulars at the 1964 Democratic Convention. From
1969-1976, he worked for the Ministry of Education in Tanzania, East Africa, where he
was chairperson of the math department at the Samé school. Mr. Moses returned to the
USA in 1976 to continue to pursue doctoral studies in Philosophy at Harvard. A
MacArthur Foundation Fellow from 1982-87, Mr. Moses used his fellowship to develop
the concept for the Algebra Project, wherein mathematics literacy in today’s information
age is as important to educational access and citizenship for inner city and rural poor
middle and high school students as the right to vote was to political access and
citizenship for sharecroppers and day laborers in Mississippi in the 1960s As founder and
president of the Algebra Project Inc., Mr. Moses also serves as director of the project’s
materials development program. See more at http://www.algebra.org Together with
Algebra Project Inc. board member Danny Glover, Moses and others recently launched a
national discussion calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution for Quality Public
School Education as a Civil Right; see more at http://www.qecr.org. Mr. Moses has
received several college and university honorary degrees and honors, including the
Heinz Award for the Human Condition, the Nation/Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship.
Primary Research Interests: Mathematics as an Organizing Force for Quality Public
School Education for Every Child in the USA. |
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