tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post8818294538709466535..comments2023-12-24T05:39:44.753-06:00Comments on Mike Klonsky's Blog: Right-wing goes bananas over social-justice teachingMike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-70559760852315861862009-12-07T13:45:13.787-06:002009-12-07T13:45:13.787-06:00Aside from everything else that's wrong with t...Aside from everything else that's wrong with the right wing attacking social justice education, playing dominoes in math is hardly some extraordinary radical approach to teaching. It's an integral part of the Everyday Math curriculum, used all over the country. We also roll dice and play cards. They happen to be very handy math tools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-22786050462663187192009-12-07T00:19:54.455-06:002009-12-07T00:19:54.455-06:00Great piece, thank you.Great piece, thank you.Robert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-25284243704550261202009-12-04T16:29:49.970-06:002009-12-04T16:29:49.970-06:00One of my kids' best teachers in San Francisco...One of my kids' best teachers in San Francisco public middle school used, and uses, an exercise in which the kids divide into white rulers and nonwhites in learning about apartheid. (No, apparently actual cruelty does not go on.) My daughter refused to be a white oppressor, based on being half-Jewish -- this left a very tiny number of "Afrikaners" in their mostly-nonwhite class. Hey, just like real apartheid! Anyway, this is just the kind of exercise that would drive the right berserk -- ironically, the teacher is very firmly a moderate in our left/progressive/PC school district. It's not about politics; it's about good teaching.carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.com