Despite a 2017 law meant to eliminate lower-level math and English classes, many community colleges are resisting the change.
New research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may be contributing to an enrollment decline while doing lasting financial harm to students.
In California in 2020, after the law went into effect, 46% of first-time math students in college-level classesDespite those positive results, some community college “I’m supposed to go into linear equations next fall. How’s that going to work?” said Parks. She’s turned to private math classes to get up to speed. “It’s like I’ve just learned to read.”
“To us that’s alarming,” he said. “Students are failing these courses at much higher levels than they were before.”higher-level courses That strategy — giving students the choice — prevents many students from completing college, said Katie Hern, a co-founder of the California Acceleration Project. Los Rios administrators ultimately agreed, and now say they are removing all remedial courses for the upcoming fall term.
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