Our March Newsletter is here! Check out exciting new updates on our work, articles on our pedagogy, republished work from Bob Moses, and more below:
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March 2023 Newsletter - The Algebra Project INC
March 2023 Newsletter (This is helpful if you're on mobile, images aren't loading, you want to click links, or need to print the document) Find past
In this 2022 conference panel, participants discuss Power On!, a graphic novel written for and with you about equity in computing.
https://algebra.org/wp/2023/01/02/power-on-a-new-graphic-novel-written-for-and-with-youth-about-equity-in-computing/
Power On!: A New Graphic Novel Written For and With Youth About Equity in Computing - The Algebra Project INC
Session Title: Power On!: A New Graphic Novel Written For and With Youth About Equity in Computing
Join Project South’s Math Literacy Workers as they walk through a debate on math education, such as should young people teach math? Who is a better teacher, students or adults? And when is math needed?
https://algebra.org/wp/2023/01/02/the-great-debate-does-it-add-up/
The Great Debate - Does it Add Up? - The Algebra Project INC
Session Title: The Great Debate - Does it Add Up?
To read the entirety of Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, you can grab a copy from @BeaconPressBks
http://www.beacon.org/Quality-Education-as-a-Constitutional-Right-P622.aspx
Beacon Press: Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
A passionately argued case for a new civil rights movement-centered on schools
“So often in the belief that we are ‘being nice,’ we fail to realize the brilliance of our students and teach down to them, demanding little. See their brilliance: do not teach less content to poor, urban children; instead, teach more!” p. 169
“If democracy is to last, we must also learn reverence—which means we value something beyond ourselves and our bank accounts. It means we understand and value responsibility, obligation, duty, and a consideration of long-term horizons.” p. 103
“When the nation established sharecropping as an economic system tied to Jim Crow after its Civil War, it also established ‘sharecropper education,’ institutionalized in separate, inferior, and demeaning public schools for decedents of freed slaves…” p. 77
“Legal scholar Goodwin Liu asserts that, ‘existing interstate disparities in educational opportunity stand in tension with the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of national citizenship and that ameliorating the disparities is a constitutional duty of the federal government.’” p. 36
“Perhaps the clearest illustration of (demand for education coming from students) is the history of the Baltimore
@AlgebraProject, another iteration of hell-raising young Black people.” P. 3
“They came from local communities, large and small, rural and urban. They all came because of a call, a shout out, an e-mail sent by Bob Moses. They came because schools were not working for Black, Brown, and poor children; they were not getting a quality education.” p. 1, 2
