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The toolkit also asks instructors to “center ethnomathematics” in multiple ways, one of which is to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”

The Oregon Department of Education is promoting a program for teachers that seeks to “disman[tle] racism in mathematics,” alleging that focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy.

Fox News reported that the ODE sent out a newsletter last week that mentions a “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course” that will occur on February 21. The course, according to Fox, is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for ‘dismantling racism in mathematics.’”

The newsletter encourages teachers to sign up for the training, which the New York Post previously reported includes a section with 14 things associated with “White Supremacy Culture,” including perfectionism, objectivity, and individualism.

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The University of Chicago is considering the creation of a new critical race studies department. The provost awarded funding to a group that will present a formal proposal.

The University of Chicago is considering the creation of a critical race studies department and is funding an effort to look into creating the new academic unit. The move came just weeks after President Donald Trump had signed an executive order banning federal contractors and grant recipients from teaching Critical Race Theory, which the Trump administration deemed “divisive” and “anti-American propaganda.” 

President Joe Biden reversed the order in a flurry of executive orders of his own. 

As Campus Reformreported in October, a group of faculty members initiated a diversity strike, during which faculty members pledged not to participate or collaborate in university-sponsored diversity initiatives until their demands were met. 

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Claire Lehmann is the founder and editor of online magazine Quillette. Quillette is a platform for free thought. Free expression and the free exchange of ideas help human societies flourish and progress. Claire discusses the overtaking of critical theory in the education systems of the West, and the impacts of bias in the classrooms of our younger generations.

“We speak of equity, we speak of care of all students, yet we listen and attend to voices saying ‘Reopen everything, I’m free to breathe,’ supporting white privilege,” Wilson said before comparing his fight to keep schools closed to fighting for civil rights for Black Americans.

The president of the Pasco Association of Educators (PAE) claims reopening schools for in-person learning is an example of “white supremacy,” and compares listening to concerned parents to following rioters breaking into the U.S. Capitol. He even says concern over student suicide is an example of “white privilege.”

Scott Wilson, PAE president, made a series of unhinged, controversial remarks during a Pasco School Board meeting this week.

The statements come as the union pushes for total remote learning for elementary schools, even with near-consensus from the medical community that it is safe to reopen schools with mitigation policies in place. The petition the union promotes baselessly calls in-person learning “unsafe and unsustainable.”

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“Get it together, white America … get up off of your behinds.”

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs’ associate vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion recently went on a video rant stating that white people need to “fix [their] freaking families.”

In an emotionally charged recording posted to Facebook and My Black Colorado.com, Stephany Rose Spaulding says that in response to the January 6 Capitol riot “‘black justice workers are not ok,” and are “angry, infuriated [and] triggered” at how black lives do not matter in America.

Spaulding alleges that in contrast to law enforcement’s actions at the Capitol, “genuinely peaceful” protests by black activists had been met by “snipers and tear gas and rubber bullets and death.”

“We would be dead in this moment,” Spaulding claims, meaning if the Capitol rioters had been black.

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