https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/17/missouri-school-district-to-fight-bias-racism-in-math-curriculum/
Missouri School District to Fight Bias,
Racism in Math Curriculum
Daily Signal, by Elizabeth Troutman
Posted By: Judy W., 4/19/2023 10:52:18 AM
A Missouri school district plans to include the personal pronouns “they/them” in math problems and hire certified teachers as “math interventionists” to fight racism and gender bias in math classes after a curriculum evaluation. “A persistent myth within math education is that since ‘numbers are universal,’ math classrooms are objective and free of bias,” says the Webster Groves School District’s Math Program Evaluation, which was presented Thursday during a Board of Education meeting. “Research shows clearly that any space where learning occurs is neither free of bias nor resistant to oppressive systems such as racism, sexism, classism or xenophobia,” Susan Bergman, the district’s math curriculum director, wrote