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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 ...

<p><br><P> Many students who enroll at the College of Southern Maryland after graduating from high school are not prepared to take a math class.<P> So before they can begin college math work that will ...

Is this a picture of something bad, or something good? Cognitive scientists call this the global-local processing dilemma: Do we perceive the overall image, or focus on the details? Education policy ...

Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a ...

Anastasha Kathireson listens to Dean of Students Rosalia Burson lead their team in an exercise on day one of a two-day Jumpstart orientation program for incoming 9th graders at Mount Tahoma High ...

Failing a class in college is weirdly taboo, even though it happens to all kinds of students. If you found this post, you’re likely facing the likelihood of failing a class. It’s hard to know what to ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. California math educators this fall have been locked in a vigorous debate: Will the implementation of a new law help more community college ...

Math was the biggest problem for area high school students once they got to college. Fifteen of 25 students from Wright City High School had to take remedial math classes. Orchard Farm High School, ...

Method to her math class: Celeste Petersen (middle), a professor at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, says that underprepared students who take her “corequisite” companion courses instead ...