A Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...

Prepares students for Precalculus and other higher math courses requiring intermediate algebra. Topics include: linear equations and inequalities, absolute value equations and inequalities, systems of ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, asked Columbia to turn over incoming first-year students’ math course placement scores by Thursday ...

Carnegie Mellon University's campus in Oakland on June 4, 2025. A new effort built from decades of research at Carnegie Mellon University aims to help college students nationwide master gateway ...

The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

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 ...

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. DPI released draft K-12 math standards proposed to replace required Math 3. Students would keep Math 1 and Math 2, then choose two ...

Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...

AND OUR BACK TO SCHOOL COVERAGE NOW. HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE SUMMER SLIDE, HOW STUDENTS LOSE A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT THEY LEARNED IN THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR? DURING SUMMER BREAK? WELL, ONE LOCAL TECH ...

A star student at her small Alabama high school, Kyra Richardson graduated confident in her academic prowess in all but one subject: math. By the time she arrived at Harvard in the fall of 2024, it ...