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(FOX NEWS) – Hundreds of highly distinguished science and math professors have signed an open letter expressing “urgent concern” over California’s efforts to reform mathematics education in the name of social justice.

The letter, signed by 597 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals, said the California Department of Education’s (CDE) proposed new mathematics framework will aim to reduce achievement gaps by limiting the availability of advanced mathematical courses to middle schoolers and beginning high schoolers, making it more challenging for students to succeed in STEM at college.

This is a vitally imp statement on the need for mathematics education to focus on rigor. In China, math standards are not subject to continued erosion by social justice warriors who can’t themselves define exponential growth or solve quadratic equations. https://t.co/90qWlWVbkk

— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) December 6, 2021

The signatories also condemned the CDE’s “deeply worrisome trend” of favoring “trendy but shallow” courses like data science over “essential” mathematical tools like calculus and algebra.

The framework, the signatories argued, would have the opposite effect of what it intends by leading to a “de facto privatization of advanced mathematics K-12 education” and disproportionately harming lower-income students.

“Subjecting the children of our largest state to such an experiment is the height of irresponsibility,” the letter said.

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