Columnist Clive Pinder is back, weighing in on school bonds that improve buildings while students still struggle on standardized tests.

Ever since the University of California stopped using the SAT and ACT for freshman admissions in 2020, graduation rates have inched up, and the number of students returning for their second year of ...

More incoming Rutgers University freshmen are failing math placement tests and require remedial courses. Experts suggest math gaps begin in elementary school and are worsened by weakened state ...

The Towson University undergrads stared at the quadratic formula projected onto the board. It seemed to be taunting them. x = [-b ± √(b² – 4ac)] / 2a Their instructor, Cristina Packard, had already ...

Faculty members at the University of California are calling on the UC system to bring back standardized tests in its admissions process. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it comes as more and ...

W hen California lawmakers voted in 2017 to all but eliminate remedial math across the state’s community colleges, Nicholas Lujan was the kind of student they hoped to save. After three years of ...

Are high school students getting the preparation they need for college math? The question, long a focus of study in K-12 math education and policy, is now the subject of a Senate inquiry. Sen. Bill ...

A new report from the Goldwater Institute reveals that a significant number of students at the University of California, San Diego need to take remedial math courses to graduate, a fact which the ...

The University of California, San Diego is confronting an academic breakdown that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a growing share of its incoming freshmen now arrive on campus unable to ...

More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class had gotten a 4.0 grade average in high school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below ...