{"id":380555,"date":"2026-06-30T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/380555\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:10:08","slug":"opinion-california-stopped-requiring-the-sat-now-students-struggle-with-fractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/380555\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | California stopped requiring the SAT. Now students struggle with fractions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JNN5WZGVXZGTTNDZ6NPBHHM4RM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Mina Aganagic is a professor of mathematics and physics at the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IRITY33GUVCVDLJQFEM7QGQKCI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The University of California\u2019s STEM programs have long powered upward mobility and economic growth. In 1960, California built a three-tiered higher-education system designed to ensure excellence and broad access, offering a world-class education at a public-university price. That promise has benefited students, made for a fairer society and produced extraordinary graduates: winners of Nobel Prizes and Turing Awards, astronauts, internet pioneers and transformative inventors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mina Aganagic is a professor of mathematics and physics at the University of California at Berkeley. The University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-380555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}