It was the end of his doctoral studies and the beginning of the Algebra Project.
Before the Algebra Project, few students took the optional advanced-placement qualifying test in ninth grade, and virtually none passed.
But Moses kept coming back to the same thing: the Algebra Project.
Now he and local business leaders are looking to the Algebra Project to lay the groundwork for economic revival.
Other Southern whites have embraced the Algebra Project for reasons that have little to do with civil rights or economic development.
And what draws her to the Algebra Project is that it works.
The Algebra Project reaches approximately 10,000 students and approximately 300 teachers per year in 28 local sites across 10 states.
Since the Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project began in 1991, they have returned to Jackson, one by one.
Similarly, the Algebra Project is more about the students than the teachers, each one teaching one.
He also helped Mr. Moses with his Algebra Project, an effort to bring mathematical literacy to the poor.