>>Do you really read the NY Post?
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>Cut the crap with me, Bill.
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>ODE (Oregon Department of Education) has stated in materials on their website
>"White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when...students are required to 'show their work.'"
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>The Post article certainly takes some liberties with the degree to which educators are promoting this, but that does not vitiate the core of the news piece - that ODE is throwing a racial undercurrent into how math has been taught.
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Kevin,
The first thing I did when I saw the NY Post article was to check the sources as you did. That's sort of a habit with me. Hell I even check the sources of some posts I read on Level Extreme 😀.

>If you had bothered to check some of ODE's actual content (which you clearly have not), you can see for yourself.
>https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf
>https://vimeo.com/464801874
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>Also....here's some text, straight from their website:
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>"White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions. Coupled with the beliefs that underlie
>these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to
>the world of mathematics. The table below identifies the ways in which white supremacy shows up in math classrooms.
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>We see white supremacy culture show up in the mathematics classroom even as we carry out our professional
>responsibilities outlined in the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP). Using CSTPas a
>framework, we see white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom can show up when:
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>• The focus is on getting the “right” answer"
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>If you don't see the pretext here, there's nothing more to say....other than the logical fallacy (which you and JR do, A LOT) of impeaching the story merely because it came from the NY Post.