Posted on 12/18/2022 10:11:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Kansas universities may soon dispense with their algebra graduation requirement because too many students fail the courses.
NPR Kansas recently reported: “About one in three Kansas students fails college algebra the first time around. Some take it several times before they pass. Others get so frustrated that they drop out altogether. And that cuts into university graduation rates.”
NPR added that this prompted the Kansas Board of Regents to consider alternative requirements under what’s called “Math Pathways program.”
Regent Wint Winter (yes, that's his name) said the new Pathways program is critical as a way to fight declining enrollment.
He stated: “It’s incumbent on us to be aware of all the roadblocks that are out there for students … reasons why they’re leaving, reasons why they’re not graduating. So I would urge us all to … find ways to find the bandwidth to keep this moving along.”
If graduation rates are now more important than what students are taught, than why not only offer gender and women’s studies courses…and underwater basket-weaving? Is algebra—algebra!— really too hard for today’s young scholars to handle? In my day, many of us took advanced placement calculus…in high school no less…with credits often transferring to the college of our choice. If calculus, geometry, and even algebra are too difficult for those enrolled in bastions of “higher education” today, perhaps the schools can offer Remedial Addition and Subtraction in their Math pathways programs, assuming they can find “the bandwidth.” What do you think about that, Regent Wint Winter? (Not to be confused with Regent Summ Summer.)
Higher education’s emphasis on enrollment over substance and mission is sadly of a piece with Christian churches’ abandonment of traditional doctrine in favor of a policy of “we must do whatever the hell it takes to put more butts in the pews,
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Rushing toward Idiocracy.
No wonder American kids can’t keep up with Asian immigrants.
I saw this movie called “Idiocracy” and thought it was great entertainment but didn’t realize it was a blueprint to our future.
only require people to take a womens studies class for any degree and your graduation rates will likely shoot to 100%!
I mean, why stop with eliminating alegbra?
Perhaps they can outlaw gravity so that I may fly more easily....
Stop calling it education.
In other words, evolution has reversed course. Homos Saps have reversed course. Heading back towards Neanderthalism. Then again, it could be because the Snowflakes and Zeros are too damn lazy to do a math problem or that their attention span is microscopic.
As and employer I am nearly at the point of considering a college degree completely useless.
Just give every baby a college degree and get it over with.
Oh wait, no money in that.
Perhaps one in three Kansas students shouldn't be in college in the first place.
We’re raising a generation of woke morons. That’s how a country dies.
In the immortal words of Barbie: “Math Is Hard!”
if university requirements still focused on grades and test scores instead of diversity points... then maybe there’d be students in college that could handle basic algebra... which i passed in 7th grade.
It’s not that Algebra is ‘TOO DIFFICULT’, it’s that the students are too damn stupid.
White males can when not being chastised for being born white males.
Send kids out of country for higher education.
Bingo! If you can't do calculus, you shouldn't be in college.
For THE LOVE!
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