Giving Compass' Take:

• Kristen Thorson and Erin Gohl at Getting Smart share why the study of math is a highly important foundation of learning.

• How can our administrators and educators put more emphasis on math courses in schools? What are the benefits of increased rates of math literacy?

• Here's an article on how math courses should change for the better in high schools. 

Bob Moses has spent his life advocating, organizing, and teaching in pursuit of equality and access for all. He has worked tirelessly to ensure that all people receive sufficient preparation and opportunity to fully participate as active citizens. At the root of his work is the assertion that a healthy society requires both the equal right to vote in a representative democracy and access to a quality education to allow participants to exercise that vote with knowledge, wisdom, and experience.

Over the last forty years, he has fought to establish that education is a foundational right for all children in the United States. To this end, he worked as a Civil Rights leader who helped guide the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to successfully organize people in local communities, and their allies across geographic, ethnic and income differences, to change policy and practice. He was an architect of the Freedom Summer project in Mississippi, a campaign to register African American voters during the summer of 1964. He was beaten and jailed in the fight for equality.

Read the full article about math literacy by Kristen Thorson and Erin Gohl at Getting Smart.