Recently, Physics teacher Moses Rifkin uploaded a guest post to “Quantum Progress” (check out the origin post here https://quantumprogress.wordpress.com). In this post, Rifkin talks about how there are certain privileges that white people have in the field of science, and that if we work together as a whole we can remove this privilege for an equal playing field. Fox News has recently taken a grasp on this post and critiqued it, with questions such as, “So, what does that have to with physics exactly?” Other commentary on Rifkin’s class included, “We’re consistently behind in science in math of other developed countries in high school. Maybe it’s because physics teachers aren’t teaching physics in their classes.” However, throughout Fox’s rant about Rifkin’s new curriculum, it seems as though they never actually address the data that Moses presents. They seem to avoid talking about basically his entire argument for the curriculum. If you want to check out Fox’s article, and the video of the talk they gave about Rifkin, visit: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/fox-news-america-is-behind-because-science-class-wastes-time-on-the-lack-of-black-physicists/
Moses’s New Curriculum
February 18, 2015