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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 it's okay for horrible people to do horrible things. But if we don't point out stupidity on our side of the divide, aren't we guilty of the ultimate political sin, that of hypocrisy? It is in that spirit that I share with you something so mind-numbingly bizarre that it affords all Am...

New Math Policies Would Hurt Gifted Students Commentary Perhaps Alan Erisman, who headed a team of applied mathematicians at Boeing, sums up the education of numbers best. Erisman, author of the upcoming book “The Math Myth,” says, “If we taught English the way we teach math, students would spend all their time doing spelling tests and diagramming sentences but never read a great book or ever read poetry.” That seems to be one of the issues the California’s Instructional Quality Commission is seeking to address as it updates its list of suggestions to math instructors. It’s seekin...

Proposed Math Framework Would Hinder Gifted Students, Educator Says SANTA CLARA, Calif.—California’s new math framework aims to keep students learning at the same level, in the name of equity. However, critics say this would discourage some students from advancing ahead. For example, critics predict that students who are gifted in math may be prevented from enrolling in more advanced courses like algebra in middle school and calculus in high school. The framework is presented as a teacher’s guide to instructing students using the latest research and resources. But one teacher and co-fou...

Sara Ford May 11, 2021 Diversity, equity and inclusion. Three words that, for most of us, embody a moral rightness and imperative, not merely a “virtue signal to the ‘woke’ left.” Education, government, business, law, policing, life itself should reflect the meaning inherent in these three words. Diversity means including people from a variety of social and cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientation, etc. Equity means providing all people with the tools they need to enjoy and take advantage of the equal opportunity provided by inclusi...

Wed, 05 May 2021 00:01 UTC © AMELIE-BENOIST / BSIP/AFP California's proposed "equity"-focused K-12 mathematics framework aims to underscore the message that there are no students who are intellectually gifted in the subject area, and that providing tracks for higher-level math students is discriminatory. "All students are capable of making these contributions and achieving these abilities at the highest levels," the introductory chapter of the framework draft from January states, addressing the "problem" that "many competitive colleges and universities ... hold calculus as an unstated requir...