Resources

Articles and broadcasts about the Algebra Project

Henry, Neil.  "35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Moses."  Smithsonian, 36.8.  (Nov 2005): 98.

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/nov05/35_moses.html

Roach, Ronald. "From Mississippi to Miami." Black Issues in Higher Education, 21.18 (Oct 2004):28-31.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_18_21/ai_n6353236

Bond, Michael. "Powers to the People—an interview with Robert Moses." New Scientist Magazine. 19 Apr. 2003:41.

"The Mathematics of Success." NOW with Bill Moyers. PBS television. 22 Nov 2002.
http://www.pbs.org/now/printable/transcript_moses_print.html

"Best of America" Travels With Harry A&E Network television. 27 Apr. 2002.

"Successful equation." NEA Today. Oct 2002. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3617/is_200210/ai_n9124899

Cass, Julia. "The Moses factor." Mother Jones. 27.3 (May/Jun 2002):56+.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1329/is_3_27/ai_86047841

"Robert P. Moses." Current Biography. 63.4(Apr.2002): 52 +.

"Emulate Moses and the Algebra Project." Seattle Post - Intelligencer Seattle, Wash. 19 Feb. 2002, pB5.

"Algebra and activism: Removing the shackles of low expectations." Educational Leadership, 59.2(Oct 2001):6.

"Organizing algebra: The need to voice a demand." Social Policy, , 31. 4(Summer 2001): 4+.

"TIME 100: The Next Wave/Innovators/Community Activism." Time 18, June 2001:72.

"Algebra Project' Seeks To Improve Math Literacy, Address Civil Rights Issues." Nation's Cities Weekly, 12 Mar 2001:2.


"Gaining New Perspectives on the Achievement GAP (Algebra Project, math and science literacy." Black Issues in Higher Education, 18.1(1 Mar. 2001): 24.

The Merrow Report. 14 Feb. 2001.
National Public Radio broadcast on the Algebra Project

"Algebra Equals Empowerment." USA Today. 8 Feb. 2001.

"Algebra Project: Bob Moses empowers students. The New York Times. 7 Jan. 2001 pED31(N) pED31(L).

Jim Lehrer Newshour, 9 June 2000
PBS television broadcast features interview with Bob Moses .

"Mississippi learning: algebra as political curriculum." The Nation. 4 Mar 1996:16+.

"A Freedom Summer activist becomes a math revolutionary." Smithsonian. Feb 1996:114+.

Radical Equations by Bob Moses

RADICAL EQUATIONS: CIVIL RIGHTS FROM MISSISSIPPI TO THE ALGEBRA PROJECT
by Robert P. (Bob) Moses with Charles E. Cobb, JR.
January 2001, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts

* Named a 2001 Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal *

From the publisher:

“Bob Moses’ work to organize Black voters in Mississippi in the early 1960’s famously transformed the political power of communities. Nearly forty years later, Moses is organizing again, this time as founder of the national math literacy program called the Algebra Project. Through personal narrative and impassioned argument, Moses teaches the lessons of the civil rights era and shows them at work in a remarkable movement today, where students are demanding math literacy education as key to economic and civic equality.”


“Before anyone in Congress or the White House says another word about education reform, they owe themselves a few hours with Moses’ new book. Moses cuts through cant and phony debates with the serene urgency of someone who risked his life in the civil rights revolution.”
E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post


“If Chapter One of Moses’ Mississippi odyssey was about voting, Chapter 2 is about algebra. They merge in….Radical Equations. The themes—equality, empowerment, citizenship—ripple through like ribbons, tying the two experiences in the same long-term struggle.”
Jodi Wilgoren, The New York Times


“Bob Moses, one of the most important voices in the civil rights movement, is now on the creative edge of leadership again. He shows us why math literacy for all children is a key step in the ongoing fight for equal citizenship.”
Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund

“This is the definitive book on one of the most important projects of youth empowerment and citizenship of our times.”
Cornel West


Available through Beacon Press #3127-5 / $16.00 / paperback, as well as other bookstores large and small.

Links

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics www.nctm.org
• Math Forum @ Drexel  www.mathforum.org
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science  Education www.enc.org
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute www.msri.org/education
• Mathematical Association of America www.maa.org

• American Association for the Advancement of Science www.aaas.org
• National Center for Education Statistics  www.nces.gov

• National Science Foundation, Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education  www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=ESIE