Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools...

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Theresa Perry Robert P. Moses

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools

Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr. , Lisa Delpit

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Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Philosophy & theory of education

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. Essays include

Robert Moses's historically rooted call for citizens, especially young people, to make the demand for quality education

Ernesto Cortes's view from decades of work organizing Latino communities in Texas

Charles Payne's interview with students from the Baltimore Algebra Project, who organized to make historic demands on their district

Legal scholar Imani Perry's nuanced analysis of the prospects of making a case for quality education as a right guaranteed by the Constitution

Perspectives from scholars Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne, and by teachers Alicia Caroll and Kim Parker, who provide examples of what quality education is, describing its goal, and how to guide practice in the meantime

By: Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Lisa Delpit, Joan T. Wynne
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 283g
ISBN: 9780807032824
ISBN 10: 0807032824
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introductions 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 Part I Organizing: The Youth Shall Lead the Way 1. Miss Baker’s Grandchildren: An Interview with the Baltimore Algebra Project Charles M. Payne Part II Can the Constitution Guarantee Quality Education? 2. Reading, Writing, and Rights: Ruminations on Getting the Law in Line with Educational Justice Imani Perry 3. 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 4. Constitutional Property v. Constitutional People Robert P. Moses 5. Quality Education as a Civil Right: Reflections Ernesto Cortés Jr. Part III Pursuing Excellence in a Context of Inequities 6. Stepping Stories: Creating an African American Community of Readers Kimberly N. Parker 7. Is This School? Alicia Carroll 8. 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 9. Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Lessons from Teachers Lisa Delpit Contributors

Reviews for Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools

Quality Education is much more than an anthology--it is a practical and theoretical foundation for a vital national conversation about what we want for our country and our youth, and how we can get it. -- Harvard Educational Review <br> Quality Education as a Constitutional Right offers a provocative look at the continued disconnect between the rhetoric of reform and the facts of the real world...we hear the heartfelt voices of reformers and advocates as well as of young people in underserved communities...The lessons are fresh and compelling and the examples inspired. -- New England Journal of Higher Education <br> Educators and school administrators will appreciate the perspectives and passionate rhetoric evident throughout this collection. -- Library Journal<br> <br> This is a wonderful, energizing tour of the landscape of the struggle for what is truly the new civil rights issue of our times: access to a high-quality public education. To change the nation's direction w