“How US Schools’ Culture Stifles Math Achievement” and other links…
Sara Rimer: “The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued.”
It is so sad (and I mean sorrow) when super-bad Black people immediately fill their imagination with dry, goofy, dufus, idiot-savant, fat nerds when they think of Black people having a powerful relationship with mathematics. These supposedly “Afro-centric” domestic socialites don’t see the sound they spell MAAT inside the word mathematics. There is so much more to striving for holistic correctness than looking for opportunities to control people through psychological abuse.
I have met some cool brothers and met at least one sister who was deep into math and there was nothing dufus about them… When we get back to African Life Science the foundations of the world will shake—instead of us just shaking our asses…
“The math gap: it’s cultural (so stop mocking nerds)”
John Timmer: “The nature versus nurture argument over aptitude for science and math seems to resurface every few years, but recent studies are providing strong support for the argument that any gender gap is cultural rather than biological.”
“‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ drives gender wage gap”
John Timmer: “For example, women and blacks appear to have a more egalitarian view on the workplace, while a number of religions foster more restrictive views in the workplace. The authors also hypothesized that both personal and parental education, as well as having a working mother, would promote egalitarian views in the children.”
I explored other facets of this girl’s best friend in “Today’s News: Women Make More Money than Men” and “Flippant Remarks about ‘angry women penalized’ in the workplace…”