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Rethinking Rodriguez Conference Research, Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Research
This national gathering of legal thinkers focused on the concept of education as a fundamental civil right.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/ewi/research/index.html

Education, Equality, and National Citizenship, Goodwin Liu, Yale Law Journal, Volume 116, Number 2, November 2006
Boalt Hall Professor Goodwin Liu lays out a framework, challenges, and opportunities for developing a legal strategy to secure a constitutional amendment guaranteeing education as a civil right.
http://www.yalelawjournal.org/archive_abstract.asp?id=612

Supporting the Education Organizing Movement: An Exchange Between Intermediaries, June 2003 Conference report from national gathering of education organizing groups
This national gathering of education organizing groups worked through some of the complexities and opportunities of partnership between education organizing groups and intermediary supporters.
http://www.justicematters.org/jmi_live/jmi_sec/jmi_spub/publications.html

Stand Up: A Tale of Skool, Justice and Youth Power. Eight minute video produced by Youth Education Alliance, Washington D.C.
This video highlights the youth organizing work of Youth Education Alliance to secure basic school needs through pursuing a Students Bill of Rights and a demand for more funding.
http://www.youtheducationalliance.org/resources

Education Organizing Syllabus. Family Involvement Network of Educators, Harvard Family Research Project.
This syllabus offers historical and contemporary perspectives on education organizing.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/syllabus/warren.html

The Cuban Education System: Lessons and Dilemmas. Lavinia Gasperini, World Bank Country Studies, Vol. I, No. 5 July 2000
This World Bank report discusses how Cuba transformed its public education system through “continuity in its education strategies, sustained high levels of investments in education, and a comprehensive and carefully structured system.”
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/278200-1099079877269/547664-1099080026826/The_Cuban_education_system_lessonsEn00.pdf