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Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching

Georgia State University

2011

Attorney General Eric Holder

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“Race” In Mathematics Education: Are We A Community Of Cowards?, David W. Stinson Jul 2011

“Race” In Mathematics Education: Are We A Community Of Cowards?, David W. Stinson

Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Faculty Publications

In this editorial, the author revisits Attorney General Eric Holder's well-known 2009 statement that, "in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," examining the ways in which racial "cowardice" continues to impact urban mathematical education.