> Nelson and Boaler’s very public beef is rooted in a controversial debate over how to teach math to California’s K-12 students.
> Boaler is behind the ongoing effort to change the math curriculum framework in California that includes, in part, increasing equity, pushing algebra 1 back to 9th grade and applying social justice principles to lessons.
Every time I hear anything about math education in the US, I leave convinced that "professors of education" should have nothing to do with it. And this opinion doesn't have anything to do with contemporary politics, since as far as I can tell, they've had a malign influence for at least a century (e.g. math education in the US was dumbed down by the "education experts" in first half of the 20th century, until the requirements of the space race and cold war forced a turnaround in the 60s).
> Boaler is behind the ongoing effort to change the math curriculum framework in California that includes, in part, increasing equity, pushing algebra 1 back to 9th grade and applying social justice principles to lessons.
Every time I hear anything about math education in the US, I leave convinced that "professors of education" should have nothing to do with it. And this opinion doesn't have anything to do with contemporary politics, since as far as I can tell, they've had a malign influence for at least a century (e.g. math education in the US was dumbed down by the "education experts" in first half of the 20th century, until the requirements of the space race and cold war forced a turnaround in the 60s).