Diane Ravitch criticized this book in a WSJ review in June. She doesn't think math should be politically relevant. She doesn't even believe it should be relevant. Ravitch's review has been taken up and repeated in conservative media and on right wing blogs lately and Rethinking Schools has published rebuttals. I don't have this book but I have many texts published by Rethinking Schools and they do exactly what Ravitch doesn't like---advocate the use of curriculum "to advance social justice." Wouldn't want to teach anyone to think about justice, would we? Geezlouise. Ravitch is such a punk.
Diane Ravitch criticized this book in a WSJ review in June. She doesn't think math should be politically relevant. She doesn't even believe it should be relevant. Ravitch's review has been taken up and repeated in conservative media and on right wing blogs lately and Rethinking Schools has published rebuttals. I don't have this book but I have many texts published by Rethinking Schools and they do exactly what Ravitch doesn't like---advocate the use of curriculum "to advance social justice." Wouldn't want to teach anyone to think about justice, would we? Geezlouise. Ravitch is such a punk.
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i wonder if she's tried irrelevant curriculum with eigth graders.
she's always doing crazy things like taking geography beyond coloring maps and memorizing. and instead of wanting their kids to understand the relationship between poverty and test scores, for example, they think the cities and mountain ranges should all be memorized.
Julie, we may need to get a little more vocal next year about the kinds of stuff we want for our kids in these good schools of ours.
Hi Chronic Roll, thanks for visiting. Have you seen the enron movie? Smartest Guys in the Room. We'll see what sentences get handed out this week for ebbers, then the enron monsters...