The politics of math: Is algebra necessary to obtain a college degree?

06/30/2017
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(Los Angeles Times) by Rossana Xia and Teresa Watanabe. If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college: Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math deemed necessary to earn an associate degree or transfer to a […]

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College enrollment has plummeted, and private universities are scrambling

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(Business Insider) by John Marcus. DELAWARE, Ohio — Behind the deceptive quiet of a small college campus in the summer, things are buzzing at Ohio Wesleyan University. Faculty at the 175-year-old liberal-arts school, which has about 1,700 undergraduates, are preparing new majors in high-demand fields including data analytics and computational neuroscience. Admissions officers are back […]

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