The Hechinger Report

Some California colleges find it hard to shift away from remedial courses

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Public Colleges Say They Can Educate All Students. So Far, They Haven’t Figured Out How.

Why are you making me do it all over?” Dangerfield, who has ADHD and a learning disability, failed three times at two ...
The Hechinger Report

Math ends the education careers of thousands of community college students. A few schools are trying something new

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...
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UCSD has to offer middle-school math classes to freshmen

There's been a significant shift in the math preparedness of incoming college students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). According to a new report from the school's ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
Scientific American

To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes

All routes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees run through calculus classes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of college students take introductory calculus. But only a ...