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Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teachers More Mathematics (ams.org)
6 points by tokenadult on July 21, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


The title is misleading, but I'm not complaining. It should say something like:

    Racially unbiased academic performance requires
    that elementary school teachers to have better
    mathematical ability that currently exhibited.
Too long, but more accurate.

A well-argued article consisting almost entirely of anecdote, but depressingly believable, and entirely in accord with my experience.


Evolution is nasty. Racial equality requires genetic engineering.

We'd all like to live in a world where mathematical ability wasn't limited by genetics, a world where every child had the potential to be the next Einstein.

We don't. The only people who think so are believers in the magical equality fairy. One look at an SNP map would cure most of them, which is why they do their best to philosophize from their ideals rather than evidence.


it is amazing how many non sequiturs you have managed to cram into this tiny comment.


Indeed. It did contain a non sequitur statement or two. I was stating opinion, not conducting a logical proof where every statement logically implies every other. Hence the lack of footnotes, etc. Were I trying to set forth evidence, my post would have been very long.

This isn't the sort of thing you can find out by armchair reasoning, as you might be implying. You have to actually look at the evidence. Luckily, there are piles and piles, and it's nearly all on my side.




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