Computer software perpetuates 'systemic racism,' prof finds

Computer software perpetuates 'systemic racism,' prof finds
"According to Education Professor Noah Golden, software can be harmful because it can reduce students and schools to numbers that can be used to justify policy positions.
Golden previously wrote in 2014 that data can be used to discount students' “identities” and “cultural practices.”
A Chapman University professor recently argued that computer software helps perpetuate “systems of privilege and oppression” against minority children.
Noah Golden, an education professor, published an article last Friday on the role of technology in education, lamenting that computer software is often used in the “testing and classification” of minority students.
“Software plays a central role in maintaining separate and unequal educational opportunities for marginalized youth,” Golden said, explaining that this is especially concerning in public schools.
Software, used during an era of high stakes testing, “converts lived realities, learner strengths, and communal needs into a number, cluster grouping, or other data points,” which can “produce or reproduce systems of privilege and oppression...”