This post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the BookMarks blog. Andrew Hacker is the author of The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions, published this month by The New Press. Hacker, ...

When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when ...

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