A sharp rise in students entering the University of 聽system without middle school-level聽聽skills is raising alarms among educators.
A new internal report from the University of California, San Diego reveals that the percentage of incoming students scoring below Algebra 1 on placement exams鈥攁 math course typically completed by the end of eighth grade鈥攈as tripled over the past five years.
In 2020, just 6 percent of first-year students at UCSD placed below Algebra 1. By 2025, that number had surged to 18 percent, according to the UCSD Senate Admissions Working Group report.
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