It's called "Math equity," an emerging doctrine holding that schools can't teach city kids to count without first exorcising racism-or, as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics declares, without forcing teachers to "Reflect on their own identity, positions, and beliefs in regards to racist and sorting-based mechanisms." According to The College Fix, an education-reform blog, math equity "Refers to the growing insistence among educators that teaching math in the classroom comes with some inherently biased methodology that must be addressed. Proponents of 'math equity' also stress the importance of social justice issues such as race, diversity and gender in math education."
In New York City, the hustle has taken deep root in public schools, where it seems inevitable that "Math equity" will emerge soon.
Meantime, New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza pulls no punches on implicit bias-he calls it "White-supremacy culture"-and he's peeled $23 million off the Department of Education's budget to bring teachers up to speed on racial consciousness.
No significant difference in racial makeup exists between New York's traditional public school faculty-62 percent white, 38 percent minority-and its charter school faculty-58 percent white, 42 percent minority.
Charter schools outperform traditional public schools regularly enough to discredit the idea that unconscious biases among white teachers seriously impede learning among minority kids.
It's unclear why Carranza insists that implicit bias is such an obstacle in district schools, when it is clearly not a problem in the city's demographically indistinguishable charter schools.
How much better it would be to accept the lessons being taught by charter schools and apply them to demographically similar traditional public schools.
https://www.city-journal.org/new-york-charter-schools-success
In New York City, the hustle has taken deep root in public schools, where it seems inevitable that "Math equity" will emerge soon.
Meantime, New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza pulls no punches on implicit bias-he calls it "White-supremacy culture"-and he's peeled $23 million off the Department of Education's budget to bring teachers up to speed on racial consciousness.
No significant difference in racial makeup exists between New York's traditional public school faculty-62 percent white, 38 percent minority-and its charter school faculty-58 percent white, 42 percent minority.
Charter schools outperform traditional public schools regularly enough to discredit the idea that unconscious biases among white teachers seriously impede learning among minority kids.
It's unclear why Carranza insists that implicit bias is such an obstacle in district schools, when it is clearly not a problem in the city's demographically indistinguishable charter schools.
How much better it would be to accept the lessons being taught by charter schools and apply them to demographically similar traditional public schools.
https://www.city-journal.org/new-york-charter-schools-success
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