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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...