{"id":607,"date":"2014-05-22T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=607"},"modified":"2024-05-07T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:23:55","slug":"even-common-core-math-politicized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/05\/22\/even-common-core-math-politicized\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Common Core Math Politicized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Of more concern than the program\u2019s  \u201cacademic inferiority,\u201d the report said, is the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics\u2019 \u201crepeated goal of promoting politically charged themes of social justice in schools nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach often challenges children to change their political opinions to match those espoused by their teachers,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>An NCTM publication encourages math teachers to take a \u201csociopolitical turn\u201d in their teaching style.<\/p>\n<p>Radical math supporter Rochelle Gutierrez explains: \u201cA shift toward focusing on social issues has allowed us to uncover the importance of students and teachers needing to belong to something larger and for changes in one\u2019s identity to serve as evidence of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Common Core is a program of national standards created by Washington for all schools to follow. It is promoted in advertisements as \u201cvoluntary,\u201d but the threat of losing federal funding makes it coercive, critics have said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2014\/05\/even-common-core-math-politicized\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2014\/05\/even-common-core-math-politicized\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of more concern than the program\u2019s \u201cacademic inferiority,\u201d the report said, is the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics\u2019 \u201crepeated goal of promoting politically charged themes of social justice in schools nationwide.\u201d \u201cThis approach often challenges children to change their political opinions to match those espoused by their teachers,\u201d the report said. An NCTM publication [&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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum","category-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}