Quality education as a constitutional right : creating a grassroots movement to transform public schools / edited by Theresa Perry ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references.

The historical and contemporary foundations for Robert Moses's call to make quality education a constitutionally guaranteed right / Theresa Perry -- The holy cause of education : lessons from the history of a freedom-loving people / Linda Mizell -- Miss Baker's grandchildren : an interview with the Baltimore Algebra Project / Charles M. Payne -- Reading, writing and rights : ruminations on getting the law in line with educational justice / Imani Perry -- Schools that shock the conscience : what Williams v. California reveals about the struggle for an education on equal terms fifty years after Brown / Jeannie Oakes -- Constitutional property v. Constitutional people / Robert P. Moses -- Quality education as a civil right : reflections / Ernest Cortâes Jr. -- Stepping stories : creating an African American community of readers / Kimberly N. Parker -- Is this school? / Alicia Carroll -- Stories of collaboration and research within an algebra project context : offering quality education to students pushed to the bottom of academic achievement / Joan T. Wynne and Janice Giles -- Culturally responsive pedagogies : lessons from teachers / Lisa Delpit.