Why expanding access to algebra is a matter of civil rights
- Written by Liza Bondurant, Associate professor of secondary math education, Mississippi State University
Can higher-level math courses foster better outcomes?FG Trade via Getty ImagesBob Moses, who helped register Black residents to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, believed civil rights went beyond the ballot box. To Moses, who was a teacher as well as an activist, math literacy is a civil right: a requirement to earning a living...




