Research Used to Justify California’s ‘Equity’ Math Doesn’t Add Up

Students sit with their laptop computers in a classroom in La Puente, Calif., on Nov. 16, 2020. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Part 1 of a series on ‘Social Justice’ Research (Part 2 here)

The push to create “equity” and more “social justice” in public schools in America’s largest state rests on this basic premise: “We reject ideas of natural gifts and talents,” declares the current draft of the California Math Framework, which also states that it rejects “the cult of genius.”