Number of Students at Ucsd Without 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets
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A UCSD Faculty senate report reveals a significant number of incoming students lack 8th grade math skills, sparking concerns about the university's admissions standards and the need for remedial education.
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Shocking to see that 1/8 of the incoming class needs remedial math, and that remedial math includes basic elementary school skills.
UCSD is a very hard school to get into, and there should be precisely zero kids at this level.
"UC eliminated its standardized test requirement in 2020."
You may note a correlation with the data showing the remedial class needs skyrocketing after that. Edit: the report notes the same. Obviously there's the confounding factor of Covid, but you would expect the damage to recover by 2024, yet we see that the problem is still getting worse as of the latest data.
Beginning in 2022, however, UC San Diego took the lead, with enrollment jumping from 894 in 2021 to roughly 1,800 in each of the following three years (2022-2024).
The subset of California public schools in which more than 75 percent of the school’s total enrollment is composed of students who are identified as either eligible for free or reduced-price meals, or English learners, or foster youth, are eligible for additional funding through the LCFF program. The subset of California schools that meet these eligibility requirements are referred to as LCFF+ schools,