Posted on 09/08/2021 6:53:16 AM PDT by karpov
Does the average person have any idea what is now considered “normal” in the field of K-12 education? I already had some misgivings after reading Jay Schalin’s devastating review of the curricula in education schools: The Politicization of University Schools of Education: The Long March through the Education Schools. Nevertheless, I was unprepared for what I recently heard in a 2019 speech by a leader in math education, Deborah Loewenberg Ball. While the talk is now two years old, it is very unlikely that her perspective has improved.
Ball’s credentials place her at the apex of the education world: she is a professor and former dean at the University of Michigan School of Education, the Felix Klein Award lecturer at the 14th International Congress of Math Education (Shanghai, China, July 2021) — and the 2017 President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
The speech was Ball’s 2019 Summer Keynote address at the Standards Institute, titled Confronting & Dismantling Threats to Our Struggle for Justice in Classrooms, and it is a masterpiece. It is not a masterpiece of psychological science or educational theory or teaching math. It is a masterpiece of rhetoric that rests on false assumptions, persuades through empathic story-telling—and puts teachers, especially white teachers, in a very difficult position.
The talk centers on brief video clips of classroom interactions involving three black kids in a class of thirty fourth graders. Their task is to understand the idea of a fraction. I will just describe the first interaction.
Ball sets the scene with a slide that reads: “But our efforts to make change are still high-risk for reproducing patterns of racism and marginalization. Let’s look.” Apparently we are to see in the children’s answers and teachers’ responses to questions about fractions, “patterns of racism and marginalization.”
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Then allow me to suggest you post it this way:
“The issue is not the issue. The revolution is the issue.” ~disputed source... https://stream.org/the-issue-is-never-the-issue-the-issue-is-always-the-revolution/
Progressives should be banned from the teaching profession.
“Does the average person have any idea what is now considered “normal” in the field of K-12 education?”
No. The average person has been conditioned to not see the obvious differences between education now and education 50 years ago.
Well, you can tear a plane in the falling rain
I drive a Rolls Royce ‘cause it’s good for my voice
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Ah, the lyrics are kind of nonsensical, but one of my favorite songs. And I’m actually old enough to remember when it came out.
Not to be picky, but it’s actually terraplane I think, not tear a plane.It was a car brand.
The Violent Femmes did a decent cover as well.
They could teach their kids that math is their ticket up and out.
O white racists plus O white racists equals 10 white racists in wokey math.
They say they hate us.
All we have to do is believe them!
I have met so many blacks who excel in math. No one should be allowed to racialist math.
Math is as non-racist as you can get. There is a RIGHT answer and there are WRONG answers. Math doesn’t care WHO gave the answer; it’s either RIGHT or it’s WRONG.
...”the plans for a safe return to school must take a fuller view of the safety needed to dismantle anti-Blackness and white supremacy in our educational systems.”
Show me any anti-blackness or white supremacy and I promise to dismantle it. I’m waiting...
Especially after 7 8 9.
Screw this crap Bunp!
3 petty thefts + 2 joints = 6 months in juvie
2 knock out punches + 6 robberies = 18 months in county jail
10 corner deals + a stable of 5 = 2 years in prison
2 murders - 1 snitch = life
White supremacy means that the last white person has not been executed—yet.
Do I need to quote Voltaire again?
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” - Voltaire
The Violent Femmes did a decent cover as well.
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Haven’t heard that one. Have to check it out.
I was recently in the hospital and the dieticians came to visit me. They were telling me that my AC1 was high, as well as my blood sugar. I knew that blood sugar goes up when you’re fighting an infection — they didn’t seem to know that.
They tried to tell me that some number represented a 3 month average of my AC1 or sumthin like that. They had ONE data point, the last one. I tried to explain the MEANING of the word “average”. They did not understand.
I asked them to take the average of 3, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1, 3, 3, 0 and 6. Plenty of hints there. They could NOT see the average.
I pointed out to them that if they took the LAST data point, 6, and told a patient that it represented the AVERAGE, they would be off by 100%.
Even though it was their JOB, they still couldn’t see it.
I ran the same quick test past one of the nurses. She saw right off the bat that the average was 3 and that the last data point was off by 100%.
You’re confusing mathematics with science and medicine. /sarc
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