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The proposed California Math Framework's central idea is that differences in outcomes in math stem entirely from “messages” that empower whites and males, and undermine girls and people of color. This youngster apparently didn't get the message. (Photo: Imgorthand/ E+/Getty Images) The push to create “equity” and more “social justice” in public schools in California, America’s largest state, rests on this basic premise: “We reject ideas of natural gifts and talents,” declares the current draft of the California Math Framework, which also states that it rejects “the cult o...

California education officials are considering applying a social justice paradigm to teaching K-12 mathematics that would erase "white supremacy" from the subject and eliminate gifted classes for students.

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...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The California Department of Education has proposed an ethnic studies "model curriculum" that includes, among other things, chanting the names of Aztec gods in an attempt to build unity among schoolchildren. Included in the draft curriculum is a list of "lesson resources" with a chant based on "In Lak Ech," which it describes as "love, unity, mutual respect," and "Panche Be," which it describes as "seeking the roots of truth."  The chant starts with a declaration that "you are my other me" and "if I do har...

When I was a budding libertarian college student in the early 1970s one of my monthly delights was receiving my latest copy of Libertarian Review mailed to me each month. This was long before the Internet, Social Media, and such. People actually corresponded and received printed publications via mail. This newsletter was basically a service to obtain libertarian related books and audio cassettes originally called Books for Libertarians, expanded into including more reviews and commentary. Later it was again transformed into a monthly magazine, and eventually Libertarian Review was consolida...