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

by Lisa Delpit, Theresa Perry, Ernesto Cortés Jr., et al.

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807032824
• ISBN13: 9780807032824
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.5"