Rising number of college freshmen unable to do middle school math, study from UC San Diego reports

[rangerrebew]

Rising number of college freshmen unable to do middle school math, study from UC San Diego reports

‘The Big Weekend Show’ hosts Johnny Jones and Tomi Lahren comment on UC San Diego’s report on rising numbers of college freshmen being unable to solve elementary and middle school math equations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rising-number-of-college-freshmen-unable-to-do-middle-school-math-study-from-uc-san-diego-reports/vi-AA1QyRg4?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=691b02e9d5db44f5af5e5a415ef72c5b&ei=121

[rangerrebew]

This could easily be solved (no pun intended) by enrolling more DEI students.

[PeteS in CA]

I think this study reflects decades dumbing down and diversion from core subjects such as Math in PSs more than DEI. Sadly, students who can actually read and do math have become a sort of de facto elite.

As CA colleges and universities go, UCSD is not among the top-ranked, e.g. UCLA or UC Berserkeley, in the UC system. Who here, without using a search engine, knows their mascot? At the same time, UC schools are more demanding and respected than community colleges and many CSUs. IOW, UCSD should be getting academically better students, but those they are getting are deficient academically.

BTW, "Tritons".

[libertybele]

How are they passing the SAT test???

[DefiantMassRINO]

This is why Massachusetts insitituted the MCAS requirement for high school graduation during the 1990s - high schools were graduating functional illiterates.

Massachusetts voters recently recinded in the MCAS graduation requirement so the teachers' unions could being to graduate functional illiterates from public schools once again.  Back to the failed 'social promotions' of the 1970s.  But, hey, at least teachers can go back to day drinking at school.

[mountaineer]

I just heard about this book*. Here's part of the Amazon blurb:

... Schools, once alive with deep learning born of human connection, are now dominated by screens. The result is unmistakable: falling performance, fractured attention, and the slow erosion of rigorous thought.

We were told that classroom technology was progress. It wasn’t. In THE DIGITAL DELUSION, neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals why digital tools in school consistently undermine learning -- and what parents, teachers, and schools can do to push back with purpose. Drawing on decades of neuroscience and education research, Horvath dismantles the core myths driving the EdTech movement, and offers a practical playbook for putting people -- not programs -- back at the center of education.

This is not a call to reject technology.

It’s a call to reclaim real learning. ...

That children seem not to use pencil and paper very much anymore may contribute to their low scores.


*The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning -- And How To Help Them Thrive Again
by Jared Cooney Horvath (Author)

[Hoodat]

All by design.  The intellectuals must go.

[catfish1957]

Jesse Watters has a segment where his flunky Johnny asks questions of young people at various locations.

The answers he gets from our young is jaw dropping and scary.  I really hope our young isn't that ignorant.