I had to see where this "Designing Mathematics Curricula ..." publication came from. Apparently the authors are from Wheelock College of Education & Human Development - which is the education department of Boston University.
Many, many years ago I took some courses at BU, a fine institution condemned to live in the shadow of Harvard across the river. I met some terrific - or at least interesting - professors. But it appears the education department is no better than anyplace else - inevitably academic backwaters.
The researchers should conduct a real world experiment using discreet groups and double blinded. Group 1 is ordinary math students, both male and female. Group 2 is minority women math students instructed as the researchers propose. Both groups test on the same test. We might gain some worthwhile insight as to the validity of this theory of disparate outcomes.
I had to see where this "Designing Mathematics Curricula ..." publication came from. Apparently the authors are from Wheelock College of Education & Human Development - which is the education department of Boston University.
Many, many years ago I took some courses at BU, a fine institution condemned to live in the shadow of Harvard across the river. I met some terrific - or at least interesting - professors. But it appears the education department is no better than anyplace else - inevitably academic backwaters.
I am amazed how racism is tolerated in academia.
Thanks for reading!
It is amazing how far you can get in Education departments with theory alone. No proof needed that anything actually works
Math <i>is</i>. It doesn’t care about race, sex or anything else. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is just denying reality.
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What a bunch of complete and utter bullshit. Just another instance of academics arguing for special privileges for themselves and their followers.
Thanks for reading, AlabamaSlamma.
This is beyond absurd.
Thanks for reading, Robin!
The researchers should conduct a real world experiment using discreet groups and double blinded. Group 1 is ordinary math students, both male and female. Group 2 is minority women math students instructed as the researchers propose. Both groups test on the same test. We might gain some worthwhile insight as to the validity of this theory of disparate outcomes.
So I am going to use the power of Caucasity to hypothesize that college in America will become increasingly irrelevant