OPINION:
“Conservatives fight ’woke math’ textbooks in K-12 schools” (Web, April 18) is interesting for what it does not say. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress’ “report card” in mathematics, “the average mathematics score at grade 8 for white students was 32 points higher than the average score for their Black peers in 2019 and 24 points higher than the average mathematics score for eighth-grade Hispanic students.”
The Times article says, “There is no objective truth, not even in math,” but NAEP results can hardly be viewed as an endorsement for the current K-12 education system.
Mathematics is the language of science and it prepares K-12 students for gainful employment in the 21st-century STEM economy. There were 13,051 doctorates in education awarded in the 2019-2020 academic year. Is there one among them who can solve America’s failed K-12 mathematics program?
JOE BOYETT
Montgomery, Alabama
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