how she writes 'the historically underserved and/or marginalized youth' from the very first paragraph, and continues to makes clear on every possible occasion in the rest of the article that she sees all impoverished children as fitting in the category of students she's concerned with. Hence your first paragraph below is very disingenuous.
Furthermore, it's also clear that she's focused to a large degree on the systemic, organizational level - how school districts treat classes or teachers, more than how teachers treat individual students. So that would be in the interest of the white students in those schools or classes as well.
View original postFirst no teacher should be encouraged to treat students differently based on the race and that is what you do when you say special effort needs to be focused on "the historically underserved" and you convince yourself that race is the only factor in that equation. The largest group of poor in this county is still white children and many of them will be going to school in inner cities where teachers are being taught that the whiteness is the problem.
View original postFor a mathematician her logic is deeply flawed. She does nothing to support her argument that math is race based or intrinsically political. She simply makes that claim and comes to "logical" conclusions based on treating her unsupported assertions as truth. Sorry but bringing up the uncertainties of theoretical math is irrelevant since that isn't really taught even at the graduate level in anything but a pure math degree. The math taught at the high school doesn't even come close. Her assertion that math is seen as the ultimate indicator of intelligence is grossly overstated and simplistic. Yes people who excel at math are considered intelligent but so are people who excel law or medicine or even writing. It is true there is not a great deal of respect for the social sciences but that is easily justified by the simple fact that so few of them deserve it.
I agree with you about the uncertainties of theoretical math, that was a poor argument. The part after that about math as indicator of intelligence, I think to some extent she has a point.
View original postTeachers should fight to make sure they have the best tools to educate their children and prepare them to enter the world but race should not be factor in that. Her problem is the wears brown tinted glassed and can only see the world through skin color.
Sorry, but considering how you ignored her consistent mentioning of low-income children and chose to mischaracterize her positions as 'whiteness is the problem', I'm thinking she may not be the only one who should take off her biased 'glasses' here.
Why is there less and less regard for our institutes of higher learning?
- 26/10/2017 04:34:31 PM
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I loved Milo's response: "If math is based on white privilege, why are Asians so much better at it?" *NM*
- 26/10/2017 05:03:22 PM
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As a more serious response
- 26/10/2017 06:55:16 PM
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For a short amount of time my wife's was working on her teaching certificate
- 27/10/2017 03:35:54 AM
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Seems all the articles about this just parrot the same handful of quotes.
- 26/10/2017 10:12:31 PM
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Seems like you are going out of your way to deny how over the top and frankly destructive this is
- 27/10/2017 03:15:03 AM
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No, I'm just not interested in finding a stick to beat the universities with.
- 27/10/2017 08:06:24 AM
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I've found some research articles.
- 27/10/2017 06:42:23 PM
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multi syllable word does not make up for being full of shit
- 28/10/2017 12:33:13 AM
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There's a lot of bullshit in academia, but there are also a lot of technical terms.
- 28/10/2017 01:52:18 AM
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And now an idea that deserves no attention has been disseminated to millions.
- 27/10/2017 10:32:22 AM
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This essay she wrote is in a book to educate teachers
- 27/10/2017 11:55:48 AM
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Partly articles like this.
- 27/10/2017 06:11:26 PM
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Re: Partly articles like this.
- 27/10/2017 07:08:14 PM
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I found another article from her that mostly seems to cover the same ground.
- 28/10/2017 12:04:29 PM
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Argh, that's the one I wanted to read, but my phone refuses to open it.
- 28/10/2017 06:59:06 PM
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She is more elequent than some of the other writers on link wrong
- 29/10/2017 02:45:06 AM
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Re: She is more elequent than some of the other writers on link wrong
- 29/10/2017 12:03:51 PM
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You don't combat racial inequality but treating students differently based on race
- 30/10/2017 11:09:05 AM
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You seem to be going out of your way to ignore...
- 30/10/2017 07:16:52 PM
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That reminds me of an episode of Diff'rent Strokes from 30 to 35 years ago.
- 28/10/2017 11:17:12 PM
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The actual article is copy written I am not paying to read it
- 28/10/2017 12:58:20 AM
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Then you might want to be careful what you're willing to say about it.
- 28/10/2017 09:56:31 AM
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no you don't get to attack any race and claim it is OK even the white one
- 29/10/2017 01:56:11 AM
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Maybe because there is so little regard for elementary, middle school and high school teachers?
- 28/10/2017 01:23:49 AM
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Because they don't deserve it. It's an obsolete fallback for people who fail in their discipline
- 30/10/2017 02:22:36 PM
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