From Education Week: Are high school students getting the preparation they need for college math? The question, long a focus of study in K-12 math education and policy, is now the subject of a Senate inquiry. Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, sent letters to nearly three dozen selective colleges and universities on Friday, requesting information about the math abilities of their incoming first-year students.
The move follows the release of a November report from the University of California, San Diego, which found a steep increase over the past five years in the number of freshmen at the institution requiring remedial math classes. The report, compiled by an internal group of staff, made waves across the national media landscape, with reporters and commentators sounding the alarm and offering various diagnoses of the findings, from lower academic standards and a lack of focus on foundational skills instruction in K-12 to UC San Diego’s removal of standardized-testing requirements, such as the SAT or ACT, for entrance to the university...
Full story at https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/are-students-prepared-for-college-level-math-a-senator-wants-to-know/2026/01.
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As we keep saying,* it's time for the Regents to forget the politics involved and revisit the admissions issue. At the time testing was dropped, the Regents went against the advice of an Academic Senate report.
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2026/01/sat-vs-act-vs-uc.html.
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