Weis Elementary SAIL Academy helps struggling students glide toward excellence

Students in the SAIL Academy at C.A. Weis Elementary have shown marked academic improvement through tutoring, mentoring and ...
Inside Higher EdOpinion

Is the SAT a Good Fit for Public Universities? It Depends

Standardized test requirements should be aligned with mission—a fact that demands a variety of approaches across different ...
Inside Higher EdOpinion

U of California’s Test-Free Experiment Is Producing an Uncomfortable Truth

It’s become all too apparent that high school grades are insufficient in signaling college preparedness.

Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Tucson math teachers learn new methods as proficiency rates lag

The University of Arizona’s Center of the Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers (CRR) is offering strategies to ...
Forbes

UC San Diego Finds One In Eight Freshmen Lack High-School Math Skills

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class ...
WRAL

‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
siliconera

Touhou Cirno’s Perfect Math Class Used to Promote McDonald’s

Like previous parody songs, the lyrics have been changed to reflect the menu item in question. Cirno advertises the three types of cheese that are in the pie (cheddar, gouda, and Camembert). Instead ...
Wall Street Journal

The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary 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 ...
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 ...
UCSD Guardian

Admissions report finds academic preparedness deficiencies in incoming UCSD students

UC San Diego’s record-high enrollment seems to have come at a cost: increasingly underprepared students. On Nov. 6, UCSD’s Senate-Administration Working Group on Admissions released a new report that ...
The Daily Signal

Thanks to the Woke Math Movement, Some Freshmen at UCSD Can’t Do Grade-Level Math

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 ...