something was missing in this article....hmmmm.
Posted on 10/02/2015 7:10:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The destruction of the black family from the democrat agenda and now they wonder why they can’t do math.
something was missing in this article....hmmmm.
>>The study also shows teachers’ judgment could be affected by a ferocious academic debate over whether algebra should even be taught in middle schools.
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The dumbing down of America in favor of Political Correctness is complete. That is why India and China are eating our lunch, brunch and dinner.
X=(3-1) = X=2 no matter if you are white, black, green, red or polka-dotted. Algebra and the other true sciences are supposed to be color-blind.
This entire article says that people of colour are too stupid to learn the maths.
Pssssst.....Senator Mitchell.
How about the Americans of Vietnamese Descent and Americans of Japanese Descent and Americans of Chinese Descent?
Are the Americans of European Descent holding them back, too?
Are we EVER going to run out of excuses for the enduring social pathogies of minorities?
Yes, I've long noticed that people who I work with - many of whom are very good at math - tend to have grown up in intact families.
Kids who grow up in intact families, with a father and a mother, don't have to spend a lot of energy worrying about "what will happen to me if mom and dad split up" and "what will happen to me if one of mom's boyfriends moves in." They can therefore devote themselves to studying difficult things like the slope-intercept form and the quadratic formula.
I do know one person who is a brilliant programmer and who had family problems growing up. He is a most unusual fellow, who's inner vision of himself was so strong at an early age that it carried him through the chaotic times.
People like that are kind of a separate case, in my opinion. Most kids are not so lucky as that, and for those - the majority - having an intact family gives them time to figure out their mission in life later.
I recall an article from Chicago several years ago where a teacher was fired for teaching math the ‘black way’. She/he/it had used drug lingo to show how to do fractions and percentages as well as how to teach basic business ideas about profit and loss.
The black kids picked it up nearly instantly and started to ace their exams. Which is how she got ‘caught’. Her students were out-performing the others in the school system.
No good deed goes unpunished aka the nail that stands above the others gets hammered down.
Are the scores on the tests being manipulated to show more minority students doing well? Atlanta and Houston school personnel were caught cheating by changing scores. It’s certain that these schools are not the only ones doing it.
Lots of kids can’t do math & science. It’s horrible when you force a kid to take classes they’re not qualified to take. Like a deer in the headlights.
Two + Dos am Fo.
I don’t know about California, but in our district there are two metrics - the local curricula and the scores on that, and then, the state assessment exams at year end.
In our area, if you did not pass the district courses, it wouldn’t matter if you squeaked by on the state assessment tests.
“She claims middle-school algebra teachers are holding back black and Latino kids from advancing to ninth-grade geometry, ....”
I graduated in 71, back then you had Alg I in 9th grade and Alg II in 10th grade, and geometry in 11th. Geometry in 9th grade is way to soon.
This article states that some of the minority students repeating Algebra 1 scored higher than those not held back. I'd like to know why...class grades, student choice, perhaps an unwillingness to complete course work in summer school.
I don't like articles such as this. The author is assuming the premise that Calculus in HS is preferable to a mastery level of the basics.
Short story. When my youngest daughter was in 8th grade, she took Algebra. This was a Catholic school. She went on to take Honors courses in Math throughout HS (also Catholic). However, one of her classmates went to a public HS. When they were placing her in classes, they put her in an Algebra course. She told them that she had already taken an Algebra course. The response from the "educator" was: "The 8th grade mind cannot comprehend Algebra." So, the poor kid had to take it over again.
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