California is considering a plan to revamp math education, whose first draft aimed to reduce the advanced courses available now (only in some schools) for students who were good at math. The idea was to prioritize equality of outcomes over helping each student to go as far as possible.

If the goal is to help nonwhite students on the average to do better in math, how about making sure calculus courses are taught in all high schools? The lack of these is one factor in holding them back, and it has an obvious remedy in the school system. Meanwhile, the article suggests that San Francisco has a way of encourage more diversity of students to advance to calculus without holding anyone back.

Another aspect of racism that contributes to the problem is that people in disprivileged groups are more likely to be poor. The math curriculum can't fix that, but the government can reduce poverty. We did it before; it isn't hard to do, if the government spends the requisite sum. If we defeat the plutocrats, we can do it again.