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February 19, 2026
Opinion: How our campus is supporting students through math – San Diego Union-Tribune It’s prob’ly paywalled. It does give more details than most. And yes, it does totally generalize a very specific target group. Their **stem** majors often have to take pre-calc. Then they go on to the general “research shows that lots of pre-reqs […]
February 13, 2026
The Illinois Dev Ed Reform folks published their second progress report. They twist statistics, and they twist English. Okay, I think this is best analyzed in terms of how **good** a job this does in promoting policies that will weed out the most disenfranchised so that we can focus on those “good students even though […]
December 25, 2025
This Illinois news release says that gosh golly, *actually getting a degree* is the best way to get a good job. It also notes how many folks from low income situations *start* college and go into debt adn don’t get a degree. They don’t say why. Now, our “pathways” friends would say they don’t have […]
August 29, 2025
Really want to make progress on the Fractions Module –> and Dana Institute just put out a report, too. 32 pages — that’s do-able. Let’s give it a chunk. (Endnotes start a p. 26.) MY executive summary: No redeeming qualities and definitely more harm than good. To wit: We need to “eliminate subjective placement criteria […]
February 15, 2025
I’m in chapter two, which is the one I thought would be most interesting. OK, I need to be reasonably efficient, especially since this *is* a bit of a tangent. She notes an example of curriculum being overhauled and watered down: that language requirements were trimmed from 2 semesters to 1 without a lab, and […]
February 8, 2025
Yes, another one from the Center for th eAnalysis of Postsecondary Readiness, about the scaling up of co-requisite at SUNY. They have a hefty paragraph about math faculty resisting and saying that basically, they were being told waht to do by people who didn’t know what they were talking about. The next paragraph? Not EVERYBODY […]
June 26, 2024
Let’s do the blow by blow! Yes, it’s the “Strong Start to Finish” group, the author Anne Kim. Incomplete: The Unfinished Revolution in College Remedial Education. Yes, the first 5 of the 31 pages are the usual litany about how HORRIBLE remedial education is, and how it is *especially* horrible for high achievers in high school. As […]
December 14, 2023
I might play with a Dalek image…. There’s yet another article about grand success w/ reforming developmental ed. Bright-Spot_VenturaCollege_Final.pdf is a press release about how proud they are at slowly eliminating all developmental courses, and providing intensive support and designing a totally new “statistics for liberal arts majors” transfer level class. I applaud making the effort, […]
November 29, 2023
“Bright Spot: Ventura College Eliminates Remedial Math and Improves Student Success” 8 pages. Let’s comb on through and see. First flaming red flag: all the descriptions are about how perfect it is. No qualifiers. First we learn about AB705: “ . After AB 705’senactment, the rate of one-year completionof transfer-level math almost doubled acrossall California […]
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April 6, 2026
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I thank whoever got this out there (possibly the professor in the article). https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-shortcut-that-made-college-harder you prob’ly need an account to see it, but I’ll summarize. It’s another anecdote about math and postsecondary ed. Summary: This is an example of a student who would have benefited more from developmental math, and this professor and the student […]