Radical Equations Math Literacy by Moses Robert (24 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools--as told by the program's founder Bob Moses was a hero of mine. His quiet confidence helped shape the civil rights movement, and he inspired generations of young people looking to make a difference--Barack Obama At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside--national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors--the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities--parents, teachers, and especially students--to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity. Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want. We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. Teachers use innovative techniques. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years. Radical Equations provides a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools--as told by the program's founder Bob Moses was a hero of mine. His quiet confidence helped shape the civil rights movement, and he inspired generations of young people looking to make a difference--Barack Obama At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside--national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors--the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities--parents, teachers, and especially students--to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity. Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want. We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. Teachers use innovative techniques. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years. Radical Equations provides a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools.…

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hardcover. Condition: near fine. very good(+). Illustrated with charts in black and white. xv, 233 pages. 8vo, red cloth backed boards, d.w. (minor edgewear). Boston: Beacon Press, (2001). Minor edgewear near tail, otherwise fine. A near fine copy in a very good (+) dust wrapper.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Number line beginning with 1. Date line beginning with 00. Near fine 233 page hardback in very good plus plus, if not near fine dust jacket ($21.00 U.S.). Dust jacket has a 3.5 inch closed tear to front panel along spine. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Appears to be inscribed by author in corner of front free endpaper at spine: "To XXXXX XXXXX & XXXXXX XXXXXX In honor of your work in S.D.S. for all our freedoms. Many Thanks, Bob Moses 2/25/01. Inscribed by Author(s).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. 233pp. Quarter red cloth and black paper-covered boards. Lower shoulder with a tiny bit of loss to the cloth and some rubbing and a bit of frass on the obttom edge, very good in near fine dust jacket with evidence of a very faint stain on the inside only of the jacket. Signed by Moses; and additionally Inscribed by Cobb, Jr.: "To Michelle - Among the best and most beautiful to come from Africa. In these pages perhaps you will see some connection between the Mississippi and the Zambezi. Anyway, I toss this book to you from my side of the river. Charlie Cobb." Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by Cobb to the recipient, sending the book along. Robert P. Moses, educator and civil rights activist, was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; since 1982 he has worked on the Algebra Project. "The author tells the story of his participation in the voter registration movement in Mississippi in the 1960s, and explains how he used what he learned through his Civil Rights work to establish the Algebra Project, a program dedicated to resolving the crisis in math literacy in poor communities" - [publisher's summary]. Signed.…