As you can read here, the University of North Carolina is hosting a professor from the University of Illinois who maintains that what “minority” students need if they’re going to understand math is for it to be presented as a “social construct.” This makes me think of the famous hoax by Alan Sokol — a published paper contending that gravity was a “social construct.” I don’t think this is a hoax, though.
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NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
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What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
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A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
