A new report out of the University of California San Diego is raising educational alarm bells as American students fall further behind.
As public schools continue to fail the children of the United States, universities across the country are beginning to offer classes to review foundational math skills. CEO and founder of the Center for Education Reform, Jeanne Allen, joined Fox News’s “America Reports” on Thursday to discuss the shocking trend and how it could be remedied.
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“A disturbing new report from UC San Diego finding more than 1 in 10 freshmen can’t do basic math and need remedial classes just to catch up,” host Sandra Smith revealed. “I was shocked to see they expected 1% of the incoming class to need remedial math. They wound up having to put 8.5% of incoming students into remedial math, and that includes elementary and middle school math subjects. They are in college. What is happening that the system is failing them to the point they don’t know remedial math, and they are now in college?”
“It should be shocking to most of us, but sadly, it feels like Groundhog Day again. These freshmen, you have to understand, in 2015 and 16 were in fourth grade, and in California, where most of these students are coming from, the UCSD, they were at less than 30% proficient in math and reading on average, and for minority kids with whom they serve a lot, it was less than 20%. So, where have we been? Why are we continuing to accredit these schools, allow them to get private and public money, and yet they’re like ‘Oops! These incoming freshmen they need remedial education.’ It’s more like 30% to 40% on average, college freshmen need remedial education across the board.”
“The report, done by the school’s 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,'” Fox News reported. “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’ GPAs did not match their actual proficiency in the subject.”
Allen argues that the COVID-19 pandemic may have had a significant impact on children’s education, but it isn’t solely at fault for this situation.
“A lot of the report that we just saw talks about concerns of the pandemic, which, yes, we haven’t caught up,” she said. “But it’s been worse for a 20-year trend. Again, it’s a generational issue.”
She also called on parents to become more active in their kids’ education and demand accountability from the school systems that have failed. Rather than lowering standards so more children pass, schools should adopt personalized learning for students who have different ways of doing things.
“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,” she said.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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