Moses spoke of his previous work in the civil rights movement and his work with children as both being "demand-side driven." He said civil rights became an issue in the U.S. only once minorities demanded the country's recognition. And the problems of students' learning will not be addressed until they demand to be taught, he said.
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The goal of Moses' Algebra Project is to excite students to fight for their own education.
"The argument that kids won't learn dissolves as soon as demand is seen, just as the argument that blacks were apathetic disappeared once people saw hundreds of them outside voting centers," Moses said.
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