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Re: Math Forum and the math-teach discussion
Posted:
Jul 22, 2007 5:13 PM
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A little more Wayne and accusations of racism:
<http://tinyurl.com/2vobd9>
"It was the first
edition of Algebra 1 (now in the third?) that got the word spreading,
that got
the Window Rock High School Navajo kids performing at national norm
level, and
that got my daughter's Mae Carden school to drop Mae Carden's eighth
grade math
curriculum (rest her anguished soul) in favor of Saxon. It spread
from there
down, grade-by-grade, with consistently improved student performance
and with a
high level of student, teacher, and parental approval. The school is
far above
the ERB CTP III independent school norms which are themselves far
above their
suburban norms and which are in turn far above their all-student norms.
Ignorance will credit this to affluence and/or race. THAT PERSPECTIVE
IS ELITIST AND/OR RACIST.
[emphasis added]
It is a competent, day-by-day program, consistent over
time - including mandated, neatly prepared, homework - and nothing else.
Indian kids in Fort Defiance, AZ, learn mathematics just like my
daughter does
given the opportunity and the necessary coercion.
Wayne.
On Jul 22, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Greg Goodknight wrote:
> Richard Strausz wrote:
>>> Michael Paul Goldenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think where the problem comes in is when people
>>>>
>>> who WANT to talk
>>>> about teaching are quickly attacked for not using
>>>>
>>> Saxon or Singapore
>>>> Math and hence being "racists,"
>>> I don't recall this ever happening. One or more
>>> quotes, please, with dates and authors. Folks just wanting to
>>> talk about
>>> teaching being smeared as racists for the crime of not using Saxon
>>> or Singapore.
>>>
>>> -Greg
>>>
>>
>> Greg, this has been part of Wayne's regular method of operation.
>> His message was that if one didn't use Saxon or Singapore, one was
>> depriving the needy students of their rights.
>> Richard
>>
> If it is a regular MO, then it should be easy to find an example.
> "Folks just wanting to talk about teaching being smeared as
> racists". One classic example such that the above can be seen as a
> fair representation.
>
> -Greg
>
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