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Social Class and School Knowledge

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Demonstrates the different verbiage, lessons, and pedagogical styles between lower, middle, and upper class elementary schools.

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Abe is a former primary school teacher in Adelaide, South Australia. Progressive education. Ungrading. Experiential learning. Learning to be a radical advocate of children.
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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.
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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

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Sunil is an author, speaker, math storyteller, porous educator, advisor at Amplify, music freak and geek and former Board President of Human Restoration Project.

Why I Need To Leave Math Education

August 1, 2023

Look for updates in this space in my mathematical work with The Prison Math Project and Human Restoration Project. Those are the vectors that are aligned to my purpose and passion in education. Those are the places offering hope that mathematics can truly be rehumanized through content and relationships.

The Last of Us: Rehumanizing Mathematics For A Higher Purpose

March 30, 2023

It might as well have been dropped off by aliens in a test tube on a beach one hundred years ago. The inert and sterile nature of current mathematics hasn’t changed much. We just have better technology and pedagogy. It’s like watching a colorized version of an old movie.

The Wrath Without The Math: Why Mathematics Wars Have Only Ever Been Class Wars

March 17, 2023

There is no story. They don’t know it or either they don’t care to know it. They just want back full control of the narrative to position mathematics as a subject aligned to authority and compliance. 

The Myth of Mastery Learning in Education

January 4, 2023

In education, the idea that one can master many ideas in a short period of time, and be subsequently tested to confirm this delusion, is one of the first bricks in the education’s wall that must be removed.

Grading Gets An F: A Mathematician's Guide To The Absurdity of Numerical Assessment

December 6, 2022

Grades are not only statistically useless, they have been acting as academic gatekeepers for millions of students, unjustly sorting, sifting, and selecting which students get to go where and why. 

Storytelling: The Soulful Road Back Home To Mathematics

November 11, 2022

The road back home to mathematics, while lightly traveled, remains in wait for each one of us.

Middle of Everywhere, Center of Nowhere

October 30, 2022

I seem to be in the middle of everywhere. But, I feel in the center of nowhere.

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The difference with school communities, just looking at a normal mainstream school community, what I perceive is a community where there's lots of external goals. You've got five stickers for being great. You've got three they call them smiley faces or they have a name for something. So there's an external reward for being good. For me, it's just like, "Eh-eh." It's such a fundamentally wrong thing in a community to have that as your basis of if you're good or bad.

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