Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Jaime Escalante: Teacher who expected the best of the worst | Blaze Media

Jaime Escalante: Teacher who expected the best of the worst | Blaze Media

America's broken education system needs fewer credentialed experts and more teachers with high standards. DEI, as everyone knows, stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. But lately those who notice its corrosive effects on the people it purports to help have come up with a second, more brutally honest meaning: didn't earn it. This might equally apply to the "experts" who have enriched themselves from DEI's application. Take Jo Boaler, a mathematics education professor at Stanford, who's come up with a novel way to help students (often poor and black or Latino) falling behind their peers in eighth-grade algebra. Simply remove it from the curriculum altogether.

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