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Review of The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, By Andrew Hacker (The New Press, 2016), 240 pp.; $17.30: ISBN-10: 1620970686, ISBN-13: 978-1620970683 I believe it is safe to say the United States ...

I recently finished reading "The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions" by Andrew Hacker. I came on his writing through some opinion pieces he wrote, and I think there was a big piece in The Atlantic.