Jill Stewart says California’s latest education crisis is a plan by teachers’ union stooge Jackie Goldberg to dumb down math education even further:
Goldberg and the unions are so emboldened they are fighting plans to dramatically improve math skills of California kids.
California students rarely graduate with a grasp of advanced math, such as calculus. Yet calculus is now successfully taught to virtually every resident of rising poor countries, including Bulgaria, Poland and much of Asia. Trained mathematicians, like globally respected Stanford professors Jim Milgram and H.-H. Wu, say that’s because U.S. teachers receive useless, erroneous math training. Then teachers hobble the kids. Asked by state officials how California could correct course, Milgram and Wu proposed expunging erroneous math and teaching kids core principals.
The catch? Certified teachers will have to learn true math — a rarity.
Stewart says Arnie needs to wake up to what’s going on, which is not completely impossible but which does require a realistic assessment of Goldberg’s evil nature.