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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Behind ‘Anti-Racist' Math Push
2021-02-19
[Free Beacon] Liberal education collective claims asking students to show work is racist.

A radical new push to purge math curricula of allegedly racist practices like showing your work and finding the correct answer is bankrolled by one of the nation's most prominent nonprofits: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Gates Foundation is the only donor mentioned on the homepage of A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction, a group of 25 education organizations whose curriculum states that asking students to show their work and find the right answer is an inherently racist practice.

Over the past decade, the Gates Foundation has given upward of $140 million to some of the groups behind Pathway, whose antiracist resources are the basis for a new teacher training course offered by the Oregon Department of Education.

The Education Trust, a California-based group that promoted the September release of Pathway's antiracist "toolkit," has received $86 million from the Gates Foundation, including a $3.6 million grant awarded in June.

Teach Plus, another group dedicated to creating an antiracist culture in K-12 schools, has received more than $27 million from the Gates Foundation. The group's board members include former Democratic congressman George Miller and Obama-era secretary of education John King Jr.—who is also the president of The Education Trust.
Posted by:Besoeker

#18  If Bill and Melinda weren't filthy rich, they'd be looked at like snake oil salesmen back in the 1800s.
Posted by: tu3031   2021-02-19 19:21  

#17  Guess that makes The Science! racist.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-02-19 14:03  

#16  Shaking my f***ing head.

Following the science again, Bill? And oh those racist Indians & Asians.

So, Bill, tell me, what school curriculum is NOT racist then? Sick mo-fo.

Posted by: Clem   2021-02-19 13:19  

#15  One nice thing was if you ran a multi-tasking program on top of CP/M it ran fine. MS-DOS would crash. Something wasn't "clean" in register usage in MS-DOS.
Posted by: 3dc   2021-02-19 11:58  

#14  Uloluns White2720. I remember CP/M. Used it on a couple of machines. It was much better than MS-DOS.
Posted by: 3dc   2021-02-19 11:55  

#13  "We don't need no steenking math, our IPhones do it for us!"
Posted by: magpie   2021-02-19 11:46  

#12  Pearly Gates & EmBalmer aren't racists; they're equal-opportunity abusers. They hate all of us
Posted by: Phating Cruque4374   2021-02-19 11:25  

#11  If math is racist then computers must also be and that would make Gates the biggest racist in the world.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-02-19 11:23  

#10  Ummm...almost right, IRB.

See Gary Kildall.
Posted by: Uloluns White2720   2021-02-19 11:07  

#9  he started out using 'BASIC' and when Wm graduated from college. He was approached by IBM to provide an OS for the new IBM PC. Supposedly he declined and suggested a small provider who happened to be out hang-gliding for the day and so was born Microsoft where (2+2)=5 for large values of 2.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-02-19 10:46  

#8  Oh and if you want snark.
One can make a strong strong case that a bunch of interrupt routines and schedulers tied together by some dynamic tables is not an operating system.
Sort of the reason that M$S networks, like Azure, run on top of Linux.
Posted by: 3dc   2021-02-19 09:32  

#7  at-what-point-do-we-realize-bill-gates-is-dangerously-insane

He's kind of been that way for decades and decades it's just nobody wants to admit it.

The minute Balmer (of the balmar dance fame) was made a top executive or when that weird attempt at an emotional windows was made nobody even had a nervous tick...

Posted by: 3dc   2021-02-19 09:24  

#6  Yep - dude's went to hero to zero in my book. Just in one week, he pushed fake meat and now this bullshit - fuck him.
Posted by: Raj   2021-02-19 09:17  

#5  As Insty said this am: at-what-point-do-we-realize-bill-gates-is-dangerously-insane?
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-02-19 08:09  

#4  Reparation trust fund babies have all the calculus they'll ever need.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-02-19 07:48  

#3  Wait til all those Wakandan maff students learn to code.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-02-19 06:57  

#2  

It would seem we have a Billionaire Elitist class now seeking to control their self-declared Serfdom.

Maybe we need to demand a law where all politician donations be limited to 2x $5 per that US CITIZEN per election and NO businesses.

Violators charged with a felony (2yr 1 day common imprisonment and 10% of their Gross Income.)

Otherwise the Rich/Elitist class will continue to OWN every election and the person elected.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-02-19 06:56  

#1  Of course students should not be taught Mathematics. Euler, Weierstrass, Gauss, Lagrange, Dirichlet, piff, cis white males. No need at all to teach their stupid ideas. Don't need 'em! (sarc)
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Thromons3612   2021-02-19 04:35  

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