A Woke Stanford Mathematics education professor is accused of “reckless disregard for accuracy” in an anonymous complaint of 100 pages filled with documentation.
The professor in question, Jo Boaler, managed to get Algebra banned in eighth grade in San Francisco under the banner of equity. The voters eventually reversed it – 80% wanted it back.
The complaint was filed with Stanford University’s provost and dean of research.
Boaler applies social justice principles to math.
“We’re not changing or lowering the standards. We’re outlining how inequitable the teaching of math is right now,” said Woke Jo Boaler.
The anonymous complaint filed Wednesday with Stanford cited 52 instances in which Jo Boaler allegedly included incorrect information about outside studies in learning, neuroscience, and math education in her articles, lectures, and books, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Several examples were in a draft of the California K-12 math framework, a guidance document about best practices in teaching math that Boaler co-authored.
One of her misrepresentations is her insistence that timed testing causes anxiety. She misrepresented the work of psychologist Randall Engle. However, Engle’s paper that she cited deals with “working memory” rather than student anxiety, and Engle himself called the assessment a “huge misrepresentation” of his work.
One math professor at the University of Winnipeg wondered where the misconception among teachers about timed tests came from. She said every misconception seems to trace back to Jo Boaler.
Boaler sounds like a master of low expectations. That’s racist.
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Jo Boaler has a valid point.
Sometimes in our rush to point out and condemn such idiots we can miss something true and important.
Often students are stressed by standardized tests.
We need to understand why and seek sensible solutions.
If teachers are stressed, that can be transferred to the students.
If students are led to believe they are judged as humans by the test results that causes stress.
A simple sensible solution – communication!
When teachers and students understand the tests are the means for the school to provide better programs for the benefit of the students, and their help and cooperation is appreciated then it can be turned into a fun exercise. It was when I was in elementary and high school, but then again I went to Lutheran schools where there was a commitment to excellence as well as great Christian love. The teachers were not just earning an income, they were involved in preparing people for the bright future which in the 50’s and 60’s was nothing like the mess the Democrats have made of the USA of today.
Ah your boss will have a charitable view of your inability to meet deadlines, expectations, promises, and guarantees. There is nothing like a teacher who prepares a student who a future that doesn’t exist and sets him up for failure. It isn’t love to set someone up to fail. It isn’t charitable to leave some ill equipped to meet the future. It is in fact, for a teacher, criminal.