The California Board of Education will not implement its newly proposed mathematics curriculum after critics argued its racial equality components would “de-mathematize math.” The Mathematics ...

Hundreds of mathematicians and scientists have signed a statement calling on educators to abandon “well-intentioned” efforts to close achievement gaps in math education, saying it could have ...

A public school district in the city of Seattle is considering a proposal that would infuse math courses with elements of social justice, including studying how math has been “appropriated by Western ...

A suspect is facing several charges following an incident over the weekend involving members of the Livingston County Sheriff's Office and New York State Police Rochester Police Accountability Board ...

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

Leszek Gawarecki, head of the mathematics department at Kettering University, a STEM-focused institution in Flint, Mich., said the events of 2020 inspired him to create a new course on math for social ...

Andrea McChristian, former policy research director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, had to convince those who know her best — including her father — that taking a job at a nonprofit that supports ...

In a puzzling shift, the landscape of mathematics education seems to be undergoing a profound transformation as educators embrace what some critics term “Social Justice Mathematics.” This movement, ...

The state of Virginia is taking a decidedly racial approach to mathematics as it is attempting to change its curriculum under the banner of equity and social justice. On Tuesday, Loudoun County school ...

California will officially adopt a new "equity" and "social justice" based mathematics framework for its K-12 schools after a vote from the State Board of Education on Wednesday. After multiple ...

For some mathematicians, social-justice work is a natural extension of their career trajectories. “My choice of mathematical epidemiology was also partially born out of out of my love for social ...