The inequality in mathematics and STEM classrooms didn’t happen by accident.

I excavate the racial architecture that built it and has kept it standing.

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    In February 1942, a college dean stood before the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and said, calmly, what most curriculum documents today are careful never to say outright. Harl Douglass, director of the College of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder, proposed that American high schools split their…

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About Me

I’m Dr. Erika C. Bullock. I study what mathematics education was actually built to do — and the answer is not what most people want to hear. I excavate the history, center Black intellectual traditions, and write for people who are ready for a real reckoning.