Sticky Notes

    Last evening I heard on TV about Radical Math, now being taught by over 400 teachers in NYC. It's all about "educating" students about social injustices thru mathematics.

Look at a list of topics that serve as math lessons, and this is just the last few on the list:

# Sweatshops  # Taxes  # Teaching  # Unemployment  # Voting  # War in Iraq  # Wealth  # Welfare  # Women

In the City Journal: Late last month, over 400 high school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day conference, titled “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education and Social Justice.”The conference’s organizers left nothing to the imagination about their leftist agenda. At many of the conference’s 28 workshops, math teachers proudly demonstrated how they used classroom projects to train students in seeing social problems from a radical anticapitalist perspective. (emphasis mine)

This is apparently approved by the education board. How can this happen?