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It's not that they published a paper without any Black co-authors. There has been a controversial push in California to reform public school math education guidelines called the California Math Framework [1]. It [2] frames current math education in California as failing minority students and gives suggestions for how to remedy it. The issue has been controversial as some see it as injecting social justice topics into…
> academic researchers studying pedagogy and had little to no input from actual teachers. This makes sense but doesn’t square with the lack of black authors. Would black academic researchers studying pegagogy be better than actual teachers? It seems the issue is lack of teachers participating in the design and testing of the framework than the race of the authors. Is there a evidence or accusation of discrimination i…
It helps to have people who understand education and who understand (often from personal experience) the very phenomena one claims to be addressing.
> Is there a evidence or accusation of discrimination in the selection of the authors?
There is no accusation, merely an observation which was enough to attract the ire of the Stanford prof.