More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

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 ...

A couple of years ago, Kelly Spoon decided to experiment with her assessment practices. A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started ...

Five states — Georgia, California, Tennessee, Utah and Oregon — have better aligned high school and college math courses in ...

Many students placed in remedial college math courses do not graduate. Ohio colleges are using co-requisite courses to improve math preparedness and completion rates. Co-requisite courses allow ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

Forrest Lane has received funding from the Greater Texas Foundation. Putting off college math could improve the likelihood that students remain in college. But that may only be true as long as ...