- There’s also the fact that Governor Kate Brown signed into law a bill which did away with “all [Oregon high school graduation] essential skills requirements” in the name of “equity” and “anti-racism.”
(In 2021, The Fix reported that Oregon’s “Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” toolkit claims “the concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” and notes a way “to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students”
is to
- “visibiliz[e] the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.”
Some of these “toxic characteristics” include a “focus on getting the
- ‘right’ answer,”
- “independent practice is valued over teamwork,” and
- “requiring students to show their work.”)
