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[quote=Anonymous]Blog post about this: 
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/11/ucsd-faculty-sound-alarm-on-declining-student-skills.html

"Alarmingly, the instructors running the 2023-2024 Math 2 courses observed a marked change in the skill gaps compared to prior years. While Math 2 was designed in 2016 to remediate missing high school math knowledge, now most students had knowledge gaps that went back much further, to middle and even elementary school. To address the large number of underprepared students, the Mathematics Department redesigned Math 2 for Fall 2024 to focus entirely on elementary and middle school Common Core math subjects (grades 1-8), and introduced a new course, Math 3B, so as to cover missing high-school common core math subjects (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II or Math I, II, III; grades 9-11)."

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Quote from report:

"UC San Diego is proud to be a leading public university that serves not only the privileged few but the full spectrum of California’s population. If we take seriously our mission as an engine of social mobility, we must be prepared to support students who have been underserved by their
prior schooling. But our capacity is not limitless. We can only help so many students, and only when the gaps they need to overcome are within reach.

Admitting large numbers of students who are profoundly underprepared risks harming the very students we hope to support, by setting them up for failure. It also puts significant strain on faculty who work to maintain rigorous instructional standards. Especially now, when our resources become more constrained, we cannot take on more remedial education than we can responsibly and effectively deliver."

Full report here:
https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissions-review-docs.pdf[/quote]

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