Meet Jo Boaler, California's architect of "equity-based algebra"

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OK this might be too perfect, too Central Casting.

https://twitter.com/PirateWires/status/1773022394283889083

She's a Stanford professor of math education who's arguably most responsible for the new California Math Framework — a set of curriculum recommendations that advocate against teaching algebra to most of the state's gifted middle-schoolers in the name of equity.

But she's sent her own children to a $48,000/year private school that teaches its middle schoolers algebra, and now she's accused of significantly distorting citations in her research to support conclusions the original studies never reached. Much of this research underpins the new Framework.