“A leading non-profit in CA, endorsed by the nation’s largest mathematics education group, says that classrooms are “sites of pain and violence for Black and brown students.” The aforementioned Jo Boaler advocates teaching children that they have been “math-traumatized.”
a committed army of activists are destroying our public schools, eliminating most opportunity for our highest-performing students, and ignoring entirely our lowest-performing students. a thorough history of the war and central players from @mualphaxihttps://www.piratewires.com/p/the-two-front-war-on-academic-standards …
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Yes, occasionally logarithmic scale felt like a place of pain for me. And I can attest that I’ve been physics-traumatized in my Senior year. Would I trade this for being an ignorant idiot? Nuh, happy to re-live pain and deal with trauma again.
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a thing that essentially sees no mention in this piece is the massive deficits and declines in education spending (as a percentage of tax income, as expenditures per student, as resources per educator) across many states over the last couple decades. in scarcity everyone loses
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eg "tracking" or passing kids up thru grades they haven't really passed — everyone hates this but also if you don't pass them then what do you do with them, ratios of 1 teacher to 40 low income kids with minimal support at home, nobody has the resources to fix this
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"We're surrounded by enemies." "Good, now they'll be easier to find"
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The “No Child Gets Ahead” doctrine.
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How about no more coerced school i.e. all optional, anonymized entry exams, bring back general diplomas to reduce college siloing Take the money we waste on most k-12 use it to promote prenatal and early childhood nutrition, language exposure, books in home, keepin fam together
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