Injecting social justice into math doesn’t add up
Lee Fang writes for Real Clear Investigations about a threat to basic mathematical skills. Jim Simons’ mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into…
Lee Fang writes for Real Clear Investigations about a threat to basic mathematical skills. Jim Simons’ mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into…
Mark Hemingway of the Federalist decries “clueless” critics of classical education. With the failures of public education becoming more evident daily, the interest in classical ed has suddenly become intense.…
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” critiques a recent document that argues precise mathematics instruction is racist. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC and https://twitter.com/TheRightAOC.
Academic performance continues to disappoint: The average reading score for the nation’s twelfth-graders declined between 2015 and 2019 and there was no statistically significant change in twelfth-graders’ average mathematics score…
If there’s one academic subject sure to contain objective determinations of right and wrong, it’s math. But Katya Sedgwick writes for the Federalist about a bizarre application of politics to…
You don’t need to be a math whiz to understand the value of Jared Pincin’s new Martin Center column. Following a growing trend in education called critical mathematics, the Seattle…
Today, the Cabarrus County Schools is hosting the Global Education Summit 2019, a project of UNC World View. Here is the description: World View partners are invited to kick off…
WTVD has the details of the lawsuit against MVP curriculum critic Blain Dillard, A parent whose child goes to a high school in the Wake County Public School System has been…
Parents who are dissatisfied with Wake County’s high school math program, the MVP Math Curriculum, mounted a good-faith effort to convince the school board to adopt a math curriculum that…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon documents the federal government’s support of efforts to important social justice into mathematics. The National Science Foundation is spending over $1 million to…
Amber Northern and Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute argue that North Carolina’s mathematics standards are weak because the state “ditched Common Core.” This is not true. North…
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that regulations and provider shortages block drug addicts from getting treatment. Kristen Blair’s Daily Journal focuses on reversing declining math scores among American…