Mathematics plays a central role in winnowing opportunities for students to enter and succeed in college. In California, students can graduate from high school with just two years of math, including a ...

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A new agreement among the state’s public colleges will raise the value of a couple of Washington’s high-school exams. The new math and reading exams, which are called Smarter Balanced and will be ...

Not long after Yesenia Sanchez started classes at a community college in Maryland, she learned that she could skip a requirement that has been the bane of thousands of students: remedial math classes ...

For advocates, change hardly happens fast enough. But over a five-year period, a key barrier to the success of many college students has eroded considerably, opening up the door for thousands of new ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course ...

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, ...

Mathematics education is in crisis: A third of all schoolchildren end up in remedial math courses, and the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low. This is a result, in part, of schools ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

There is a crisis in our traditional remedial mathematics education. Many, likely most, math faculty members have already heard much about this crisis. But many faculty members outside math ...