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what are your thoughts on this? https://web.stanford.edu/~joboaler/Jo-Boaler-reveals-attacks...

Well, this citation: "For instance, after San Francisco Unified de-tracked math, the proportion of students failing algebra fell from 40 percent to 8"

Comes from this article:

https://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Standards_and_Positions/W...

But as you can see, the change involved moving Algebra 1 from eight grade to ninth grade. Withholding this fact is pretty egregious in my opinion.

I tried looking for the other numbers she mentions by following her links, but the links she provided didn't contain those numbers. And the pdf I linked here wasn't provided by her, in fact not a single one of the numbers she used were supported by her links. I'd guess that the other numbers have similar problems as this one, but I can't know since she didn't provide a way for me to see where those numbers came from.

About the conflict between her and the others, it is hard to know who is right or not so I don't know. But judging by this opinion piece she cares more about her agenda than actual truth.

She does absolutely nothing to dispute the points they made about her actual research. It’s ad hominem attacks on her critics and pointing out her own credentials. She’s never refuted any of their attacks on her work itself, because she knows her work can never be replicated.

Did or did you not create a new account solely to bash on Dr. Boaler?

I did not. However, her continued attacks on real science did upset me enough to make a new account to comment (I forgot my old password). But if I had made an anonymous account to bash her it would make sense, considering the irrational rabid behavior of her fan base that ignores all of the reproducible studies in favor of her feel-good frauds.

Actually the evidence suggests that you did create this account for that purpose. Either way, we've banned the account for breaking the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21455081. Please stop creating accounts to do that on HN.

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