The Hechinger Report

Math ends the education careers of thousands of community college students. A few schools are trying something new

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...
Yahoo

Community Math Academy teaches STEAM skills, gives kids new confidence

For 17 years, the Community Math Academy has been instilling confidence and STEAM skills in underserved Cleveland County students. The program, which expanded into Gaston County in 2022, provides ...
OPB

Math ends the education journeys of thousands of community college students. An Oregon college is among those trying something new

Linn-Benton Community College is finding ways to teach math in more applied ways, so that students can pick up those skills and get into the workplace. It’s 7:15 on a cold gray Monday morning in May ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Community colleges neglect those who struggle with math. We are professors who know what’s missing.

Kuniyuki is a full-time tenured math professor and assistant chair of the mathematics department at San Diego Mesa College. He lives in San Diego. Foster is an adjunct math professor with over 40 ...
EdSource

Two community colleges show how students can succeed without remedial math courses

A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention across the state for success in teaching math. Not only are students at Cuyamaca ...
Seattle Times

Community-college students learn math by using it

The grinding sound of metal on metal filtered through the walls of Chris Lindberg’s math class at Shoreline Community College, but his students had no trouble tuning out the noise. “We’ve got a ...
KQED

Belonging and Believing: Transforming Remedial Math at Community Colleges

Developmental or remedial education forms a core service of community colleges, with a staggering 68% of all community college students taking at least one remedial course, most commonly English or ...
The Business Journals

Oregon community colleges helps math add up for students with new teaching approach

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Two years ago, Jennifer Hughes was 45 and supporting four ...
The Hechinger Report

For community-college students who struggle with arithmetic, some solutions

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. For many students ...
EdSource

As California community colleges gear up to teach less remedial math, one college shows how it can be done

Allessandra Reyes by her own admission “was really bad at math” in high school. The now 18-year-old freshman at College of the Canyons, a community college in Santa Clarita, failed Algebra II in 10th ...
U.S. News & World Report

Community Math and Science Prep

Community Math and Science Prep is a public school located in New York, NY, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Community Math and Science Prep is 131 and the school serves 6-8 ...