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At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside, the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities—parents, teachers, and especially students—to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity.

In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses.

Mose, Ilva, Alitalia. Un Paese in crisi: Mose, Ilva e Alitalia, il paese dei fallimenti, di Massimo Giannini; L'irresponsabilità al governo, di Claudio Tito; Il bivio dei Benetton: ingresso nella compagnia o rischio concessioni, di Ettore Livini; Alitalia, il governo cambia rotta. Prima ristrutturazione, poi la vendita, di Lucio De Lellis; Conte: "Mittal rimane ma non escludo intervento pubblico. Non cadremo a gennaio", di Claudio Tito.