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SALEM, Oregon, February 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The Oregon Department of Education suggested teachers take a course provided by a group that also asks educators “to reflect on their own biases” towards white supremacy and provides them with a framework “for deconstructing racism in mathematics.”
The department issued a bulletin on “Black History Month” this February, in which it encouraged teachers to take a course by “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” that, according to the course description, offers “guidance and resources for educators to use now as they plan their curriculum, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they seek to develop an anti-racist math practice.”
The course, in turn, recommends a toolkit of five “strides” to help teachers “navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism.”
The first “stride” is titled “Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction” and teaches participants that “[w]hite supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” which can be redressed by first “visibilizing [sic] the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.”
The “everyday teacher actions” to which
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