Mandatory teaching standards that focus on critical theory and identity politics to the detriment of liberalism and individualism are already working their way through state legislatures in the US.
Now, maths education itself has been deemed “racist.” A group of educators just released a document calling for a transformation of maths education that focuses on “dismantling white supremacy in math classrooms by visibilising the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.”
Among the educators’ recommendations, which officials in some states are promoting, are calls to “identify and challenge the ways that maths is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views,” “provide learning opportunities that use maths as resistance,” and “encourage them to disrupt the disproportionate push-out of people of colour in [STEM] fields.”