Various banned books are displayed on a table in Weller Book Works in Trolley Square for Banned Book Week in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023.
Donald Trump has promised to defund “any school that’s pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity and any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children.” He added: “This is what must be done to save our country from destruction.” Likewise, American children’s math skills are dismal by global standards. In the PISA international math test for 15-year-olds, U.S. students rank far behind the leaders and also well behind peer countries including Canada, the Netherlands, Britain and Poland.
In 2014, the San Francisco school board also barred the teaching of algebra in eighth grade. Officials worried that white and Asian students were disproportionately getting on the higher math track, so the school district decided to hold everyone back.
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