Erika C. Bullock

Scholar of race, mathematics education, and institutional life.

Ideas that change how we think about race, education, and institutional life.

Erika C. Bullock is a scholar of race, mathematics education, and institutional life. Her scholarship develops conceptual tools for understanding how ideas become common sense, how institutions sustain them, and how new ways of thinking become possible.

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Math for All, Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

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 mathematics curriculum in two. One…

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