A recent New York Times story painted a rosy picture at Florida’s New College in the wake of its hard-right turn. It left out ...

We are seeing the consequences of SAT- and ACT-optional admissions policies at schools such as the University of California ...

Against Texas, with the aforementioned conference championship game on the line, the redshirt sophomore threw for 180 touchdownless yards. After racking up 25 touchdowns (rushing and passing) through ...

A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news outlets. The steep drops in math performance of incoming students, highlighted in a ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

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 UC San Diego report reveals a sharp decline in math readiness, showing nearly one in eight incoming college students cannot meet middle school standards. Remedial placements have surged thirty-fold ...

The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...

Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...

Much has been written about the various attempts to create more Republican House districts through extreme gerrymandering. This column recently discussed a pending Supreme Court case that could strike ...