{"id":51955,"date":"2025-11-13T22:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51955\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:51:08","slug":"uc-san-diego-finds-remedial-math-needs-up-30-fold-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51955\/","title":{"rendered":"UC San Diego finds remedial math needs up 30-fold since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can\u2019t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take remedial math courses<\/a> increased “thirty-fold” over the last five years.<\/p>\n

Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, says this isn\u2019t a new problem. She said it\u2019s a result of decades of unaccountable schools and a broken system that fails students long before they make it to higher education.<\/p>\n

“It really, Sandra, should be shocking to most of us, but sadly, it feels like Groundhog Day again,” Allen told “America Reports”<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n

The report, done by the school\u2019s Senate Administration Workgroup on Admissions, said Math 2 was created as a high school remedial class. But they found that “most students had knowledge gaps that went back much further, to middle and even elementary school<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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A young man sits at a classroom desk, covering his face with his hands as he appears stressed and overwhelmed during class. (Canart7\/iStock)<\/p>\n

It also revealed that in 2024, 25% of students placed in Math 2 had a 4.0 average in high school math. This meant many students\u2019 GPAs did not match their actual proficiency in the subject.<\/p>\n

Allen warned the findings are the latest sign of a school system that\u2019s been breaking down for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Why are we continuing to accredit these schools<\/a>, allow them to get public and private money, and yet they’re like, \u2018Oops, these incoming freshmen, they need remedial education,\u2019?” she asked.<\/p>\n

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While the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> has been found to have impacted education for many students, Allen argues it\u2019s not entirely to blame for today\u2019s problems in the classroom.<\/p>\n

“A lot of the report that we just saw talks about concerns of the pandemic, which, yes, we haven\u2019t caught up,” said Allen. “But it\u2019s been worse for a 20-year trend<\/a>. Again, it\u2019s a generational issue.”<\/p>\n

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She suggested the answer to these problems isn\u2019t lowering standards for U.S. kids, but empowering teachers and parents<\/a> to demand accountability from the school system.<\/p>\n

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The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus and medical school. (Jason Doiy\/iStock)<\/p>\n

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Allen called for greater parent involvement<\/a>, school choice and more personalized learning for students.<\/p>\n

“Sending them to cookie-cutter schools, large districts where they’re not held accountable whether they fail or they succeed is why you end up with students graduating probably with okay GPAs, but really they know very little,” said Allen.<\/p>\n

Madison is a writer for Fox News Digital on the Flash team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33075,7,1815,33074,15,33073,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-51955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america-reports","tag-california","tag-college","tag-controversies-education","tag-education","tag-fn-flash","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955","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=51955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}