Many College Students Struggle To Pass Remedial Math. Do They Need To?

PBS NewsHour

2019 mai. · NewsHour Productions · Narratzailea: PBS NewsHour

Audio-liburu honi buruz

Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there’s a sense that remedial courses are hurting the prospects of the students they are intended to help. As a result, some California colleges and high schools are rethinking their approach to teaching math -- with encouraging results. Hari Sreenivasan reports.