<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-10-26/ui-defends-professor-after-book-chapter-draws-attention.html" class="">http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-10-26/ui-defends-professor-after-book-chapter-draws-attention.html</a><div><br></div><div>I posted this comment on the N-G website:</div><div><br></div> I am no advocate for post-modernism, identity politics, or related
issues. But Gutierrez is absolutely correct in her analysis, and should
not be dismissed as some sort of IP crackpot. You can look up Andrew
Hacker's book on how Algebra and higher math is used to sort people out,
with no relevance whatsoever to their achievement and potential in the
vast majority of educational and vocational endeavors.
<p>Higher math, that is, beyond arithmetic (which is now confusingly
called mathematics), absolutely functions as a class/race marker.
Meanwhile, if you read the mainstream media including this newspaper
about basic economic, budgetary, etc. issues, you will find the gross
abuse by "well-educated" people of basic arithmetic in understanding
money, inflation, debt, taxes, deficits, trade, etc. That is to say, the
News-Gazette editors who likely condescend to Prof. Gutierrez are
consistently lacking in the basic skills, going well beyond arithmetic
and to basic sociological reasoning, giving a jaundiced and often racist
substance and tone to their editorial policies.</p><br></div></div></body></html>