Quality Education as a Constitutional Right : Beacon Press : 9780807032824 : 0807032824 : 29 Jun 2010 : 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, and the meeting launched a movement.   This book&;emerging directly from that effort&;reports on what has happened since and calls for a new scale of organizing, legal initiatives, and public definitions of what a quality education is. Essays include   ·  Robert Moses&;s historically rooted call for citizens, especially young people, to make the demand for quality education   ·  Ernesto Cortés&;s view from decades of work organizing L