{"id":550,"date":"2014-05-15T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=550"},"modified":"2014-12-24T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T13:31:12","slug":"common-core-math-strives-toward-goal-of-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/05\/15\/common-core-math-strives-toward-goal-of-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Core Math Strives Toward Goal of \u201cSocial Justice\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every area of the curriculum is affected \u2014 education is now a breeding ground for inciting political activism.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The social justice approach to mathematics utilizes political narratives in place of the traditional question-answer format. For example, one teacher utilizing the social justice methodology wanted students to \u201cknow that there is a serious disparity between the wage required to live in Lakeview and the wages paid to low-wage workers.\u201d She stated, \u201cUltimately I don\u2019t care if they can come up with really what the average house costs \u2026 the experience I want them to have is the number a minimum wage person can afford is nowhere near anything in here.\u201d16 Teachers who embrace the sociopolitical take on mathematics \u201ctransform mathematics education in ways that privilege more socially just practices.\u201d&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The longer you are in the tea party, the more racist you become&#8221;<\/em> says one workshop leader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/elert\/archive\/elertarchive.aspx?7058\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every area of the curriculum is affected \u2014 education is now a breeding ground for inciting political activism. &#8220;The social justice approach to mathematics utilizes political narratives in place of the traditional question-answer format. For example, one teacher utilizing the social justice methodology wanted students to \u201cknow that there is a serious disparity between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum","category-inappropriate","category-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}