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Why I Need To Leave Math Education
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.
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The Last of Us: Rehumanizing Mathematics For A Higher Purpose
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.
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The Wrath Without The Math: Why Mathematics Wars Have Only Ever Been Class Wars
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.
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The Myth of Mastery Learning in Education
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.
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Grading Gets An F: A Mathematician's Guide To The Absurdity of Numerical Assessment
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. 
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Storytelling: The Soulful Road Back Home To Mathematics
The road back home to mathematics, while lightly traveled, remains in wait for each one of us.
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Middle of Everywhere, Center of Nowhere
I seem to be in the middle of everywhere. But, I feel in the center of nowhere.
2022