Challenges of STEM Engagement: Technological Distractions, and Educational Equity

When I first read John McWhorter’s book in 2000, Losing the Race, I felt discombobulated and conflicted. On the one hand, I wouldn’t say I liked the fact that he laid a good part of the blame for the poor academic showings on standardized tests on the Black culture itself. He did this in front of the world, and those on the other side of the aisle…