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USANews版 - WSJ:California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class
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h******g
发帖数: 209
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版上推娃数学的种族主义左逼猫屎痢痢过来说说,你为啥不按你们左逼党的指示办?你
们猪粪是忠诚不绝对就是绝对不忠诚呀。
http://www.wsj.com/articles/california-leftists-try-to-cancel-math-class-11621355858?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class
The proposed curriculum framework aims low, abandons the gifted, and
preaches ‘social justice.’
By Williamson M. Evers
May 18, 2021 12:37 pm ET
Oakland, Calif.
If California education officials have their way, generations of students
may not know how to calculate an apartment’s square footage or the area of
a farm field, but the “mathematics” of political agitation and organizing
will be second nature to them. Encouraging those gifted in math to shine
will be a distant memory.
This will be the result if a proposed mathematics curriculum framework,
which would guide K-12 instruction in the Golden State’s public schools, is
approved by California’s Instructional Quality Commission in meetings this
week and in August and ratified by the state board of education later this
year.
The framework recommends eight times that teachers use a troubling document,
“A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in
Mathematics Instruction.” This manual claims that teachers addressing
students’ mistakes forthrightly is a form of white supremacy. It sets forth
indicators of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom,”
including a focus on “getting the right answer,” teaching math in a “
linear fashion,” requiring students to “show their work” and grading them
on demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. “The concept of
mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” the manual
explains. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers
perpetuates ‘objectivity.’ ” Apparently, that’s also racist.
The framework itself rejects preparing students to take Algebra I in eighth
grade, a goal reformers have sought since the 1990s. Students in Singapore,
South Korea and Taiwan master introductory algebra in eighth grade or even
earlier.
At one time, California took the goal seriously and made immense progress.
California Department of Education data show that while only 16% of students
took algebra by eighth grade in 1999, by 2013, 67%—four times as many—
were doing so. Success rates, meaning the percentage of students scoring “
proficient” or above, kept rising even as enrollment increased dramatically.
The biggest beneficiaries were ethnic minority and low-income students.
While student success tripled overall, African-American students’ success
rate jumped by a factor of five, and Latinos’ and low-income students’ by
a factor of six.
Many highly selective colleges expect students to take calculus in high
school. To get to calculus by senior year, students have to proceed on a
pathway of advanced courses. The framework condemns this as a “rush to
calculus” and indicates that California schools won’t provide such a
pathway. California high-school grads may be put at a disadvantage in
applying to top colleges.
The framework explicitly rejects “ideas of natural gifts and talents.”
That some are gifted in math implies some others aren’t, and this is “
inequitable.” The framework’s authors also fear that those designated “
gifted” may have their fragile egos hurt if they later lose that
designation. So it writes an obituary for gifted-and-talented programs,
which would hobble the rise of many talented children in California.
The framework rejects ability grouping, also called tracking, even though
studies show that students do better when grouped with others who are
progressing in their studies at the same pace. We have known for years,
including from a 2009 Fordham Institute study of Massachusetts middle
schools, that schools with more tracks have significantly more math students
at advanced levels and fewer failing students.
The proposal’s agenda becomes clear when it says math should be taught so
it can be used for “social justice.” It extols a fictional teacher who
uses class to develop her students’ “sociopolitical consciousness.” Math,
it says, is a tool to “change the world.” Teachers are supposed to adopt
a “culturally relevant pedagogy,” which includes “the ability to identify
, analyze and solve real-world problems, especially those that result in
societal inequalities.”
Under this pedagogy, “students must develop a critical consciousness
through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order.”
Don’t think that kindergarten is too early for such indoctrination: “
Teachers can take a justice-oriented perspective at any grade level, K-12,”
the curriculum revisionists write. Students could be taught fractions in
the distracting process of learning the math of organizing a protest march.
This program is quite a comedown for math, from an objective academic
discipline to a tool for political activism. Society will be harmed: With
fewer people who know math well, how are we going to build bridges, launch
rockets or advance technologically? Students will pay the heaviest price—
and not only in California. As we’ve seen before, what starts in California
doesn’t stop here.
My advice to California’s Instructional Quality Commission, when it meets
on Wednesday and Thursday to evaluate public comments on the curriculum
framework, is to scrap the document and return to the 1997 math content
standards and associated framework. Written largely by professors in
Stanford’s math department, it resulted in the aforementioned stupendous
statewide gains in algebra attainment. Teach math, not propaganda.
Mr. Evers is a senior fellow and director of the Center on Educational
Excellence at the Independent Institute. He was U.S. assistant secretary of
education for planning, evaluation, and policy development from 2007-09.
h******g
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一群黄左逼还幻想加州公立取消sat真的为了换个别的考试来考学生。不是蠢得被人卖
了还帮着数钱的就是像breakupfree,carwash之类的坏种五毛畜牲。人家现在连教都不
准教,学都不准学。贫民和中产,包括上私立的自认为成功人士的中产,都是一锅烩。
小孩被教育成只会搞革命的撒逼。真正有钱人,我认识的,好多直接请家庭教师home
school了事。华人们,管他左右,自己在家慢慢教吧。黄左逼们下面被操,上面喊幸福
,除了那几个五毛贱左逼,躲着廊坊开心。
i*****9
发帖数: 3157
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知识越多越反动

不准教,学都不准学。贫民和中产,包括上私立的自认为成功人士的中产,都是一锅烩
。小孩被教育成只会搞革命的撒逼。真正有钱人,我认识的,好多直接请家庭教师home
福,除了那几个五毛贱左逼,躲着廊坊开心。

【在 h******g 的大作中提到】
: 一群黄左逼还幻想加州公立取消sat真的为了换个别的考试来考学生。不是蠢得被人卖
: 了还帮着数钱的就是像breakupfree,carwash之类的坏种五毛畜牲。人家现在连教都不
: 准教,学都不准学。贫民和中产,包括上私立的自认为成功人士的中产,都是一锅烩。
: 小孩被教育成只会搞革命的撒逼。真正有钱人,我认识的,好多直接请家庭教师home
: school了事。华人们,管他左右,自己在家慢慢教吧。黄左逼们下面被操,上面喊幸福
: ,除了那几个五毛贱左逼,躲着廊坊开心。

M******y
发帖数: 108
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左派就是瘟疫,走到哪祸害到哪。

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【在 i*****9 的大作中提到】
: 知识越多越反动
:
: 不准教,学都不准学。贫民和中产,包括上私立的自认为成功人士的中产,都是一锅烩
: 。小孩被教育成只会搞革命的撒逼。真正有钱人,我认识的,好多直接请家庭教师home
: 福,除了那几个五毛贱左逼,躲着廊坊开心。

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