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 ...

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.

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis. OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo ...

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 ...

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Math scores dipped across the board in the wake of the pandemic, but girls’ scores dropped far more precipitously and have ...

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 ...