Kansas Universities may drop algebra graduation requirement because students find algebra too difficult: Don’t even mention Calculus
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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.”
“I Don’t Know What This Place Is But It Isn’t America”
ARTHUR SIDO DECEMBER 17, 2022
https://www.arthursido.com/2022/12/i-dont-know-what-this-place-is-but-it-isnt-america.html
{From the “school shootings you won’t hear about” files.}
Juan Carlos Ocón, the Principal, joined by Nicholas Aquino, Angel Roan, Fawda Rantisi and Santiago Marquez. That is quite the All-American apple pie line-up. An American high school with no actual Americans in senior leadership and virtually no American students, but paid for by the tax revenue collected from heritage Americans. That really captures the spirit of “America” in 2022.
It is a jarring reminder that our country is gone. Not going, but gone. I follow a local school district Facebook page to watch for weather delays and cancellations and they often post pictures from their various schools. Some of the schools on the extreme end of the district are still overwhelmingly White but when you get closer to Fort Wayne? It is common to have a dozen photos from a school, especially elementary aged kids, without a single White kid in the picture.
According to Wikipedia, the L.A. public school system (2nd largest in the country) is…
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Universities? I learned algebra in my freshman year of high school. I was 14.