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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Baltimore AP Students in Peer 2 Peer Hunger Strike for Public Education Support
From: Betty G. Robinson <bgrobinson@verizon.net>
Subject: Urgent: Baltimore City student hunger strikers need your support — please forward WIDELY!
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 9:59 am
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From hunger striker supporters: Please read to get a full understanding of what you can do and why the students are striking. The […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Connecting Community and Schools
At the Vernon John Middle School, New Orleans community members and youth are coming together to design a community-led effort to improve education.
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
2008 National Conference RFP
CLICK on title above to see updates on our National Conference: JULY 24-27, 2008; hosted by Jackson State University.
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Math & Social Justice
Bob Moses will be a panelist in an online discussion hosted by the Education for Liberation Network that will focus on the question of how math education can be used to forward social justice and how social justice can be used to improve math education.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Math Literacy Summit: Feb 27-28
Find out about Ruafika Cobb who founded the Algebra Academy, a Saturday program that teaches 15 minority students from the Asheville Middle School. Her work, and others in the Asheville, North Carolina community, is raising the bar for public school math education.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
LHS Algebra Project Students Lead “Family Math Night” Activities
On January 10, 2008, ninety parents, community members, civil rights activists and educators assembled at the Medical Mall in Jackson, Mississippi with great anticipation of the demonstrations in mathematics which would be led by the Algebra Project students of Lanier.
The demonstrations highlighted the concepts of distance and displacement and how these ideas are applicable in everyday life situations such as the relay race.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Feb 14-15: Driving Education Reform with Danny Glover
Renowned actor and humanitarian Danny Glover will be in New Orleans visiting Recovery School District schools tomorrow, Thursday February 14 and Friday February 15, continuing his involvement in efforts to bring officials, schools and community together to create effective solutions toward raising the quality of public school education.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Raising the Floor: Algebra Project national conference information
Join us in celebrating 25 years of the Algebra Project
When: July 24-27, 2008
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
A Community Inspired
On the morning of December 8th, the Algebra Project board members and staff were welcomed by Peabody Middle School, who hosted a Community Rally.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Honoring Civil Rights Veterans
Each year, P Sterling Stuckey, a historian and civil rights veteran, generously contributes to AP in honor of Yvonne Stevens and Wilhemenia Evans—two sisters who introduced him to the civil rights movement. We asked Dr. Stuckey to tell their story from his perspective.