Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. An obscure university report has ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

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 ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

A new report out of the University of California San Diego is raising educational alarm bells as American students fall further behind. As public schools continue to fail the children of the United ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

When professors at one of the nation’s top public universities start warning that their students can’t do middle-school math or write a coherent paragraph, the rest of us should pay attention. A new ...

Math is not political. The numbers add up, or they don’t. For Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia, who was elected in 2022 as an avowed leftist endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of ...

Several scholars have cited a number of loopholes in a draft curriculum on mathematics for undergraduate students and have submitted a petition to the University Grants Commission (UGC) demanding its ...