For fall 2024, UC San Diego revamped its remedial math course to address middle school math gaps and introduced an additional remedial course to cover high school math. In fall 2025, 921 students enrolled in one of these two courses—11.8 percent of the incoming class.
The us revoked 80,000 student visas this year. Of course our collective math skills dropped.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” -Carl Sagan
Every year since this book was released this statement has become more frighteningly prescient.
I tutored a few kids around the Inland Empire in my last job, what I was doing what the equivalent of pouring a bottle of water on a forest fire. Scores I imagine were bad enough years ago before ipad kids were a thing. But man some of my students broke down at being in 6th grade not being able to read.
Scores, not skills
this isnt unique to UCSD, its everywhere. in norcal basically people are relearning, struggling on arithmetic as 18-30+yo. English writing and reading skill is equally perilous.
ITS more advisable, if your a university student to take it at a CHEAPER community first, so you dont waste the money on UC semester, and transfer the course to the UC system.
