Posted on 10/11/2017 5:47:34 PM PDT by markomalley
A couple of spots for math teachers have opened up at Texas State University but don’t even think about submitting an application unless you have an extensive background in social justice activism and research.
No, seriously. They’re not just teaching numbers any more.
Inside Higher Ed posted the job title to its site:
Position Title: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor of Elementary Math Education
Position Description: The Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), invites applications for two tenured/tenure-track positions in PK-8 mathematics education at the ranks of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. We seek candidates who share our commitment to educational equity, to social justice, and to the recruitment and high-quality education of students from historically underserved and systemically marginalized communities. We are especially interested in applicants whose scholarly interests and work include attention to the concerns of race, ethnicity, multilingualism, immigrant, social class, gender, and diversity, broadly defined.
The listing specifies a preference of applicants “from historically underrepresented groups.” So, good luck, white educators.
While there are requirements to actually know math, the university is really looking for applicants who can show a “Demonstrated knowledge of and engagement with issues of social justice, equity, access, multilingual learning, and culturally sustainable or responsive, praxis.” And also, “Evidence of research and practice related to issues of social justice, equity, access, multilingual learning, and culturally sustainable, or responsive, praxis.”
Perhaps some of the problems they will work in class might look like this:
1. Social Justice Activism > Learn Math.
2. Malcolm X, solve for "X"
3. If Antifa hurls six rocks into a crowd of white supremacists, how many will hit Trump supporters?
Welcome to education in 2017.
it’s getting worse by the day.
Different source with 60+ comments if anyone cares to scan thru them
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3594056/posts
Have they bumped into enough students who have been successfully taught so much rain forest math that they can’t add, subtract, multiply or divide to save their lives?
They really have lost their minds.
Social Justice Math just doesn’t add up.
We seek candidates who share our commitment to educational equity, to social justice, and to the recruitment and high-quality education of students from historically underserved and systemically marginalized communities. We are especially interested in applicants whose scholarly interests and work include attention to the concerns of race, ethnicity, multilingualism, immigrant, social class, gender, and diversity, broadly defined.
Who systematically underserved and marginalized whom? What the heck are they talking about?
This is what you should expect every time you see the word “Education” suffixed to an actual science.
2 + 2 =
“That’s Racist!”
New Math?
No whiteys.
That is all it really means.
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This is in Texas. The legislature should pass a resolution saying if hiring is not impartial, the school will be closed.
So who wants to go to Texas State anyway. It’s not like it’s a top tier research university.
71% acceptance state
Math vs. Math Education. That’s a huge difference! The first is usually a near genius who can’t relate to other people but can solve equations in his head and dreams in five dimensional space. The other is an illiterate communist who’s unable to hold down any job but found a refuge in academia and has burrowed deep into the system, championing every teaching fad and folly.
Yes, the headline is deceptive. It’s not Math. It’s “Math Education.”
I greatly prefer the first group, though my recollection of them is they were incredibly strange when I was in school in the early 70s. Likable enough, though. On a completely differently wavelength. Totally engulfed in their subject matter, which was an abstraction.
Near as I can tell after several readings, they are saying that the job is not open to whites.
Yep, academic dog whistle.
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