Category: equity math

Who Benefits from Cancelling Achievement Standards?

August 24, 2021
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Commentary In 2021 there’s an outright holy war against scholastic achievement. Oregon has passed a bill that suspends the requirement that students must be able to read, write, and do math to graduate from high school. Mathematics should be replaced, we are told, by “social justice” mathematics, in which there are no correct answers, and…

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Hundreds of Educators Sign Open Letter Against Math Framework

July 19, 2021
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—California is pushing back its schedule to implement proposed math curriculum that sparked controversy. The California Department of Education said on July 14 that it would postponing the new math framework after receiving hundreds of letters of opposition. About 500 current and former STEM leaders, educators, business executives and venture capitalists signed an…

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