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Meritocracy is a ‘tool of whiteness,’ claims math professor
Campus Reform ^ | January 8, 2018 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 01/08/2018 8:35:18 AM PST by C19fan

A math education professor at Brooklyn College contends in a recent academic article that “meritocracy” in math classes is a “tool of whiteness.”

Laurie Rubel implicates both meritocracy and “color-blindness” as ideological precepts that hold back racial minorities from succeeding in math classes in an article for the peer-reviewed Journal of Mathematics Education.

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To: Army Air Corps

and education professor.....now I get it....a no nothing...


61 posted on 01/08/2018 9:26:23 PM PST by cherry
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To: C19fan

Would the math “education” professor prefer mediocrity, since lower standards are more “fair”? That should work wonders in a highly competitive world.


62 posted on 01/08/2018 9:35:17 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: simpson96

Revenge of the self-hating, pasty-white nerd. I doubt that her current position has much, if anything to do with meritocracy.


63 posted on 01/08/2018 9:44:24 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: C19fan

The headline is inaccurate. This is a math education professor, not a math professor. Another specimen illustrating the fecklessness of schools of education in our “higher indoctrination institutions”.


64 posted on 01/09/2018 7:32:43 AM PST by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek (No good deed will go unpunished by those who benefit from the evil it challenges.)
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