commitment to actually teaching children and noted that this was, had a child in math whose math instruction involved watching youtube videos for a year. sandra: that was happening all over the country. youtube videos and the teacher said to the family i am in no way obligated to instruct your child. if they can t follow the youtube videos, it s your problem as a parent. sandra: the bottom line is why do these kids keep paying the price, the children suffering the most. performance out of the l.a. schools. student performance, l.a. schools, 58% don t meet standards in english, ok. more than half. 71% are not meeting standards in math. and may i remind you the demographic, about 600,000 students, second largest in the naths, 74% latino, 10% white,
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we push hard and continue to make sure that we divisive concepts out of the schools by the way, we focus on this most important thanks, hon read and how to do math and science and history and the revisiting of curriculum priorities is critical and the parents are expressing that valley and are seeing the results of a distraction from this most important things that all of these test scores. will that has scores, as you will know you know a good ian and recalling his loss morning because as a result of the pandemic, as a mother thanks, high poverty districts and math instruction, essentially, 22 weeks of instruction, have been missed in envelope poverty districts within a symptom only 13 weeks which is still significant, but it tells you that the worst of the damage is being done to those who can least afford it in the reading scores in this country, great for reading scores are down,
the mathematics of the curriculum. our studentste are not animals. wewe need to have direct connections to how mathve is alive and well inei their daily practice and so things we were really sensitive to the images that were being presented, oh, keep that woma k away fromee education. joining me now on the phone of a former left wing activist now frager impersonality. amela, you keep thinking i ve heard it all, but is math not math anymore? it has a cultural responsive role to play. apparently it is not math anymore. localness must w be it must be injected into thing that we hold dear . oh, dear . as a society. actually , what s happened, hel ? and if you want to look into the courage to go and read the pathway to equitable math instruction, that is where a lot of this is started and it sth actually it s actually been heavily funded by the bill and melinda melinda gatesill and why bill gates, a a man who has gotten so much money and power off the back of