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From what I can tell, Jo's work is based on how low socio-economic-status (poor black / latino) students have trouble in standardized exams when there are questions like:

"A cable crew had 120 feet of cable left on a 1000-foot spool after wiring 4 identical new homes. If the spool was full before the homes were wired, which equation could be used to find the length of cable (x) used in each home?".

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She studies how more students can learn Math better. Naturally underperforming students are a special interest.

There are a number of good books. If you are interested, I found Boaler, J. (2009) What’s Math Got To Do With It? How Parents and Teachers Can Help Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject. Penguin: New York to be thought-provoking (I teach math, although at a college level while this book is immediately about a high school level or lower).

I think it might be based off a fair amount more than that, she's been publishing since 1993.

Don't know if @wisty or @ktizo is right here, but she's been publishing since 1993 is not a logical argument.

Ok, she's been consistently publishing in academia since 1993 and was asked back to her job at Stanford after leaving to become Marie Curie Chair of Mathematics Education. If her research didn't cover a lot more bases than was suggested, then I don't think she would have held either of those academic positions.

Resort to authority. One of her adversaries is a retired Stanford prof. I'm not taking one side or the other here.

Well, the guy you are referencing has taken no position that we know of here, as far as what we were currently referencing, so I call shenanigans.

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