Mathematics continues to pose formidable challenges to college students of all ages and backgrounds. It remains vital that we use achievable and proven routes to prepare both new and nontraditional ...

I’ve heard classmates talk about “not being a math person,” but I’ve never thought of myself that way. I took four years of math in high school and passed all my classes with A’s and B’s. Yet, when I ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

Allessandra Reyes by her own admission “was really bad at math” in high school. The now 18-year-old freshman at College of the Canyons, a community college in Santa Clarita, failed Algebra II in 10th ...

Rogelio Perez has long struggled with math. Had he entered California State University last year, his C grades and low standardized test scores would have steered him into a non-credit remedial math ...

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on ...

America’s amazing technological achievements, such as SpaceX’s recent rescue of stranded astronauts, mask the death spiral of math learning in the U.S., which has reached an ignominious low with ...

Remedial course work has long been viewed as a primary barrier to college completion, a black hole from which relatively few students emerge to earn a credential after being placed in the typically ...

A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention across the state for success in teaching math. Not only are students at Cuyamaca ...

The need for remedial math education at UC San Diego has soared over the last five years according to a report published this month by the university’s Senate Administration Workgroup on Admissions.

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