Across the
United States, a recent movement has initiated discussions of whether academic
math curricula should be restructured.
Specifically, this initiative seeks to address the alleged
racism within math
education through various approaches,
including having "high-achieving" and "low-achieving" math students being placed in the same classes.
This is being done to address the supposed segregation in math classrooms alleging white and Asian students occupy higher classes while Black and Latinx students are enrolled in lower-level courses.
The movement
also proposes lessening the number of AP calculus offerings— a traditional gateway course for many colleges and STEM careers—and giving other classes like statistics the same prestige. The overall initiative has been highly controversial, however. An
open letter opposing the matter was, and hundreds upon hundreds of college professors have signed it.