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Does the Gates Foundation have too much influence? Mark Suzman pens the 2023 Gates Foundation Annual Letter and responds to critiques about how the foundation uses its funding and influence.

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Thirteen-year-olds saw unprecedented declines in both reading and math between 2012 and 2020, according to scores released this morning from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Consistent with several years of previous data, the results point to a clear and widening cleavage between America’s highest- and lowest-performing students and raise urgent questions about how […]

Since the L.A. Times started reporting on California's proposed new math guidelines, dozens of readers have shared their strong opinions.

Those of us who tend to lean a certain way politically are quick to expect the dwindling number of reasonable people on the center-right to come to the defense of America and democracy when their brethren on the fringes introduce yet another conspiracy theory or a lame-brained explanation as to why they think its okay for horrible people to do horrible things. But if we dont point out stupidity on our side of the divide, arent we guilty of the ultimate political sin, that of hypocrisy? It i...

A travesty in terms of allowing people to flourish and to the best of their potential. laura: a pathway to equitable math instruction recommended the california framework, let me read this to you. white supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when preconceived expectations are steeped in the dominant culture, students have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and if they fail it is therefore, doesnt give room for the systemic reason students fail. the systemic reasons are the teachers...