Joanne Jacobs at Thinking and Linking: Math failures double at 'test-free' University of California
The people running California think college professors should teach remedial math to their students and shut up about the fact that high schools aren't teaching anything.
UCLA and Berkeley math professors should stop complaining about students who lack basic math skills, says Richard Barrera, a school board president who's running for state superintendent in California. "Part of your job that you get paid by the taxpayers to do is to teach our kids." That includes teaching fractions to university students, he told Conan Nolan of NBC Los Angeles.
I thought the job of elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools was to teach kids basic math. My mistake.
Of course some people recognize the issue.
"A child who can't do fractions at 18 was a child who couldn't do fractions at ten, and the system knew it," Tina Descovich, CEO and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, told Fox News Digital.
Read the whole thing. Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit
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