Two recent California laws try to address this problem. Assembly Bill 705 allows most students to skip all sorts of remedial classes in favor of full credit courses that can transfer to a four-year ...

When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative and unproved ideas can end up as official ...

If you’re a student at one of California’s community colleges and you plan to study a STEM field, you’ll typically have to pass calculus first before diving into many of the other required classes in ...

Clarissa Garcia works on a problem during a geometry class at Compton Early College High School last fall. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) California education officials on Wednesday approved a ...

California is developing a new framework to guide math instruction K-12 classrooms. Despite recent major reforms in the way math is taught in California, fewer than half of the state’s students meet ...

Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...

Faculty members across the University of California system are staging a behind-the-scenes protest against an admissions policy they say risks leaving their students unprepared for college-level math.

California has new guidelines for teaching math in public schools. The guidelines propose things like delaying algebra until the 9th grade. And offering classes like data science instead of advancing ...

Colleges and universities manage to provide required courses when their students need to take them only about 15% of the time ...

Prepares students for Precalculus and other higher math courses requiring intermediate algebra. Topics include: linear equations and inequalities, absolute value equations and inequalities, systems of ...