Acknowledging ties to 'segregation,' 'systems of oppression' key to fixing math education, organization says
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The National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) stressed the need for a social justice-based curriculum in a recent statement.
The statement, titled, "Mathematics Education Through the Lens of Social Justice: Acknowledgment, Actions, and Accountability," also emphasized the need for curriculum that "interrogates and challenges the roles power, privilege, and oppression play in the current unjust system of mathematics education—and in society as a whole."
NCSM emphasized three essential pillars in revamping math education according to social justice principles, including acknowledging the "unjust system," its "legacy in segregation and other forms of institutional systems of oppression," and the "hard work" needed to make necessary changes.