California-funded report claims math perpetuates white supremacy by emphasizing “the right answer.”

A California-funded report suggests that math perpetuates white supremacy by emphasizing “the right answer,” which is considered an aspect of objectivity associated with white supremacy. The report questions the efficacy of traditional approaches to closing racial academic performance gaps and proposes alternative strategies like eliminating performance tests or abandoning the concept of a correct answer.

If, after a half-century of throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at closing the racial academic performance gaps, nothing has worked, your options on the left include getting rid of the tests that measure performance, dumbing down the curriculum so the slower groups can catch…

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