"One facet of my entire timespan on Earth has been a slow unfolding of understanding of all the different ways intelligence can be constituted" Some bipoc may struggle academically if : They are pushed to get the answer correct than to understand concepts and reasoning Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration. Students are tracked (into courses/pathways and within the classroom). Curriculum developers and teachers enculturated in the USA teach mathematics the way they learned it without critical reflection. Preconceived expectations are steeped in the dominant culture. Mistakes are addressed as failure rather than as opportunities to learn. Control of classrooms is valued over student's agnecy over their learning. Math is taught in a linear fashion and skills are taught sequentially, without consideration of prerequisite knowledge. Superficial curriculum changes are offered in place of culturally relevant pedagogy and practice. Only content standards...
Am I the only person who sees this article as a major milestone? Like for real, someone should sticky this. But what the 2010's era that the author speaks about meshes almost perfectly in line with the late Millennial men who I write about below going to high school (late 2000s-early mid 2010s) and college (early mid 2010s-mid 2010s). It is an weird phenomenon that most men born in the 1990s and 2000s (i.e most late Millennial men) agree with the core principles of feminism but they distance themselves from the feminist movement itself. I have observed men begin feminist talking points with other men by saying stuff like "I am not a feminist, but.." and I believe a significant part of this is that the feminism that those men were exposed to during their formative years, was of the "men r trash" variety. The 2010's culture of pop-feminism left a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of young men, and that negative first impression of feminism opened the door f...
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