Joanne Jacobs (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Five years ago, California required all students to pass algebra to earn a high school diploma. Yet students are flooding remedial math classes in community college, reports the Sacramento Bee. They can't do algebra. They can't even do arithmetic. At Sierra College in Rocklin, for example, of the 199 sections of math being taught [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Five years ago, California took a bold step and began requiring algebra of every graduating high school senior. The grumbling ran deep. The work was hard. The underlying equation came through loud and clear: Student assistant Nancy Spears helps William Vue with a math problem at the Learning Resource Center at Cosumnes River College last week. The increasing need for remedial math classes at the college...
Uncle Sam's Cabin (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
From NPR earlier today: Are College Degrees a Waste of Money? Author and career coach Marty Nemko argues that when kids are not adequately prepared for college, they are simply wasting their time and money on four years of college-level course work. "College is a wise choice for far fewer people than are currently encouraged to consider it," he writes in his article, America's Most Overrated Product:...
