Interesting, thank you. I think that today's WSJ editorial is significantly more negative than the article you pointed to below. Perhaps Diane's views have changed/evolved since the article below. Perhaps people substantially less talented than the teacher in "Stand & Deliver" have "captured" ethnomathematics and transformed it into another "P.C." initiative. At 08:16 AM 6/20/2005, Kerry Mitchell wrote:
I don't know how similar this is, but it's by the same author and it's on the same subject, and it's freely accessible:
http://college.hmco.com/currentconflict/students/multicultural/ravitch_artic...
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In this morning's Wall Street Journal, Diane Ravitch has an editorial on "Ethnomathematics". I don't have access to the WSJ Online, so I can't include this short editorial, but you can get the gist of "ethnomathematics" from this website: