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Tag: “We the People” Math Literacy for All Alliance

In the Information Age, civil rights activist promotes mathematics education to foster national citizenship

By Dwight A. Weingarten Medill Reports Activist Bob Moses hearkened back to the Civil Rights Movement when describing his inspiration for The Algebra Project, which seeks to raise the floor of math literacy for students in the bottom quartile of state standardized exams across the U.S. In the spring of 1963, Bob Moses found himself […]

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