Our Programs > Accomplishments
In February 2007, AP organized and facilitated an unprecedented meeting in New Orleans, bringing together for the first time since Katrina representatives from the City of New Orleans, the Recovery School District, the New Orleans District, teachers of New Orleans and local leadership in one room. The meeting resulted in a unanimous agreement to develop a plan to recruit teachers and begin the dialog on how to develop a school system that provides quality education for its students. AP Board member, Danny Glover, held a press conference in New Orleans, and agreed to be the face of New Orleans' national teacher recruitment effort. In September 2006, AP completed its 3-year site development work with Yuma Arizona School District 1. This collaboration produced outstanding results in student achievement over the last 2 years, both in mathematics as well as in other discipline areas.
Campaign for Quality Public School Education as a Civil Right.
The Algebra Project is at the forefront of a nascent national Quality Education as a Civil Right (QECR) initiative, to jumpstart and sustain conversations at all levels of society regarding the need for a constitutional amendment that guarantees high quality public school education for all young people in the country. We envision organizing a coalition of institutions and individuals to partner with communities and schools to establish a network of students in such schools sufficient to capture the Nation's attention and open a national conversation about the resources needed to produce the students the country says it needs and wants. Such a network would aim to cut across and join together the underserved populations, which would include the following five communities:
1) African Americans in Southeastern rural and urban areas;
2) Latino/a and/or Mexican Americans in the Southwest and Western states;
3) rural European-American populations scattered across various parts of the country;
4) Native American communities;
5) and, the various minority and working class populations of the inner city of the major urban areas around the country.
In 2005, the Algebra Project initiated QECR at its September 2004 Board meeting in New Orleans, a groundbreaking national organizing effort to establish a federal constitutional guarantee for quality public education for all youth. Throughout 2005, YPP worked with students from Baltimore, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Oakland, Miami, Jackson, Chicago and Virginia to initiate local dialogue about QECR. The AP folk and YPP students from Jackson and New Orleans hosted conferences, organized an innovative Spring Break Community Education Tour to Miami, and participated in QECR planning meetings that AP helped to organize at Howard U., the U. of MI, and Jackson State Univ.
Demonstrating a Model of Educational Excellence.
Through the collective development efforts, the Algebra Project is organizing a coalition of students, schools, and other organizations to build a national network of schools and school communities that aim to model quality math education integrating strategy, pedagogy, and materials from the AP and partner organizations. This five-year project aims to demonstrate to the nation successful models for how students in targeted populations can successfully make a demand on themselves to learn mathematics, to understand the details of what to teach and how to teach it, and what support structures and resources are required to replicate more models across the country.
Recent Accomplishments:
March 2007
The Algebra Project and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism organized a multi-day workshop to plan future conferences around issues of media and education.
October 2006 – present
In the past 5 months, the Algebra Project President and Founder, Dr. Moses, spoke at 19 different institutions, events and professional conferences and trainings, engaging close to 5000 people across the nation with issues of equity, education and citizenship. Of the 19, he was the keynote speaker for 17 of the events. He is scheduled to speak at seven more engagements, with a projected outreach of 3000 people. His next keynote speaking engagements are at the 12th annual Governor's Education Summit in Lansing, MI; and Radical Math and Social Justice Conference in New York, NY.
October 2006
Dr. Moses was honored for his innovative work in social justice as one of “America’s Best Leaders” by the U.S. News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
June 2006
Dr. Moses is selected to receive the John Dewey Prize for Progressive Education award in May 2007 from the University of Colorado, School of Education for his achievement in “progressive education for the purpose of making society more just.”
The Algebra Project is passionate about strengthening communities and empowering youth to access full citizenship.
