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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s crazy that a teacher posted and provided helpful insight and someone decided to post more political talking points. Ugh. Don’t even pretend this thread isn’t just a political bashing. [/quote]

There's no Democratic or Republican way to do math. As the Stanford and Berkeley STEM professors who led the push against the CMF have repeatedly pointed out, Boaler and the folks who push math reform want to try to wrap their ideology in some sort of political veneer and brand the other side as Trumpers (they don't want to talk about evidence because then you'll see the lack of any). But it's BS and folks tons of progressives oppose this non-evidenced based ideology too, like Ro Khanna.

And a teacher's stories are nice to hear, but let's see the actual data. San Francisco's most ideological math teachers were proclaiming how great of a success that their Algebra for None policy was, and their math faculty head toured the country, touting its success. Lo and behold, they were lying and pushing false data. Political pressure caused SFUSD to have a Stanford ed professor do research on it, exposing it for the fraud it is. SF's school board will vote in February to bring back Algebra for 8th graders. Here's that Stanford study:
https://edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai23-734.pdf

And groups like NCTM (and their allies at E3 and the Dana Center) are generally silent even though they pushed that false data for years - you can still watch this PD webinar from December 2022 on the "Success Story" of San Francisco's Algebra for None policy (SF parents raised issues in the press about that data in May 2021). The Stanford study came out in March 2023, but NCTM is still going with it.

NCTM was a huge pusher of VMPI - the SOLE CITE for VMPI was NCTM's Catalyzing Change, which is full of misleading cites similar to the CMF.  In the first video, the Virginia Math head solely cited a Tweet of Jo Boaler for why heterogenous classes are supposedly better (a 100% misleading statement) - then proceeded to do an online poll of the teachers on the video conference, who overwhelmingly voted that heterogenous classes aren't better. NCTM then had executive appear in the 2nd video conference for VMPI.
https://www.nctm.org/online-learning/Webinars/Details/629[/quote]

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