‘We’re like sitting ducks’: The Right’s ‘war on woke’ Has A Well-Tested Playbook To Take Down Academics

Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, is not new to criticism of her work turning ugly. Boaler champions a reformist approach to teaching maths, arguing that strategies that emphasise reasoning over memorisation lead to more equitable outcomes. When she first moved to the US from Britain in the late 1990s, she [...]