UCSD students w/o 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reveals that the percentage of incoming students scoring below Algebra 1 on placement exams"a math course typically completed by the end of eighth grade"has tripled over the past five years.

Posted by oneironaut at 06:38 PM | 29 COMMENTS | permalink

America schools K-12 are failing the children.

Comments

You're the failure, you ------- sad joke.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-12 08:09 PM

At least we know where he went to school now...

Of course American schools are failing children... duh.

If children grow up to graduate college, they become Democrats at threateningly high rates... and if you think CA is bad, you should see most Red States that the OP didn't cherry pick to make his Troll Bonus tonight.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-12 09:48 PM

If children grow up to graduate college, ....

Why would you want America to "graduate" idiots? Just to vote Democrat? Makes no sense.

UCSD report: "At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school[!] standards grew nearly thirtyfold, despite almost all of these students having taken beyond the minimum UCOP required math curriculum, and many with high grades."

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-12 10:47 PM

and if you think CA is bad, you should see most Red States that the OP didn't cherry pick to make his Troll Bonus tonight.

Nice whataboutism, America's greatest University system is ----, but here's more worse ---- ...

Great defense of people going into debt for half of their lives.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-12 10:49 PM

you should see most Red States that the OP didn't cherry pick

The report is the report, feel free to dig up more reports, I don't have a problem with it.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-12 10:50 PM

In February 2020, the UC Academic Senate published a 228 page report that made the case for using standardized tests in admissions. They were overruled.
You can't say they didn't warn the powers that be. But this was a political decision, not an academic one.
x.com

I can't imagine why the GREATEST University system in the world would do this to itself.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-13 11:58 AM

I wonder if this has anything to do with math being a tool of white supremacy that educators elected to reject in the interest of social justice?

#7 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-13 01:40 PM

"Seattle Public Schools introduced the CRT lens into math classes through the district's ethnic studies department. In 2019, the department released guidelines for K-12 math teachers to use in the classroom as part of a pilot program at a handful of Seattle public schools.

The framework claims that "mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture" and that "math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color."

Seattle math teacher Shraddha Shirude is a believer, using ethnic studies in her high school course Mathematics for Liberation to tell students that the subject is "used to oppress people." She says she enjoys teaching through the ethnic studies lens because it dismantles the "toxic" white culture of math classes."

www.newsweek.com

#8 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-13 01:42 PM

I wonder if this has anything to do with math being a tool of white supremacy that educators elected to reject in the interest of social justice?
#7 | Posted by madbomber

Gatekeeping education has always been a tool of oppression.
For centuries, the Catholic Church held a monopoly on literacy in the West.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-13 02:31 PM

"Gatekeeping education has always been a tool of oppression."

It sounds like that's exactly what the people in the article were doing as well.

#10 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-13 03:11 PM

2+2=4 is raycist.

2+2 should equal whatever you feel it should equal. Or at least answer on a test.

#11 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-13 03:11 PM

Point out the parts in the the article that sound like gatekeeping then.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-13 03:12 PM

2+2=4 is raycist.
2+2 should equal whatever you feel it should equal. Or at least answer on a test.
#11 | Posted by madbomber

^
That's not in the article.
That's you, saying 2+2 equals what you want it to be.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-13 03:13 PM

Point out the parts in the the article that sound like gatekeeping then.
#12 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

"We cannot simply admit only from better-resourced schools," the report says. "This would replicate privilege and fail to support our mission as an institution that promotes social mobility."
~ FTA

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-13 04:07 PM

That's not in the article.
~ Snoofy

Its in the article in the same way you lie via over generalizing.

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-13 04:07 PM

uhhh, you just over generalized.

#16 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-13 04:10 PM

For centuries, the Catholic Church held a monopoly on literacy in the West.

#9 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Sure, centuries ago, to call it the "west" implies its recent. You are such liar.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-13 04:10 PM

uhhh, you just over generalized.
#16 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

I didn't madbomber did.... if Snoofy can do it so can MadBomber.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-13 04:11 PM

Even ------ never pumped his own threads like this.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-13 04:13 PM

OneTrumper has been reading some subreddits that have him worked up today.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-11-13 04:19 PM

meanwhile, quality universities are going to recruit students who actually know math and give them degree opportunities that real employers truly value and that is where the good jobs will be acquired.

Funny.....just a couple days ago some here were insisting our supply of qualified and skilled workers was very high. We aren't lacking in talent.

Now this........LOL

Let these morons fight it out in a race to the bottom.

This is just evidence of the incredible opportunities waiting on people who can actually perform in the STEM disciplines.

#21 | Posted by eberly at 2025-11-13 04:21 PM

This is just evidence of the incredible opportunities waiting on people who can actually perform in the STEM disciplines.
#21 | POSTED BY EBERLY

One issue is k-12 is failing the students, US spend an enormous amount of taxpayer dollars with a very poor return.

The other issue is the "test-blind" social equity gatekeeping admission system in place at the GREATEST University system in the world.

Newswek article was a pillow fight, compared to this article .... brutal ...
But the deeper crisis is moral. We have persuaded ourselves that to pursue excellence is to perpetuate inequity, that holding students to high standards is unfair, that success can be achieved by adjusting expectations rather than meeting them. The UCSD report exposes the folly of that thinking. "Equity" without preparation is cruelty disguised as compassion. It delivers opportunity in name only, while denying students the knowledge and skills they need to thrive.
www.aei.org

Even ------ never pumped his own threads like this.
#19 | POSTED BY REDIAL

------?

I am a piker compared to GasLighter and Corky. But I don't post 6 times before everyone else like they do. I never see you comment about them?? But I get it, being Canadian you don't really care about the US Universities. I unlike you have a vested interest in attempting to bring to light the decay, as my daughter is just about looking at Universities to attend.

But thank you for bringing nothing the table, regarding this matter.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-13 05:55 PM

This is just evidence of the incredible opportunities waiting on people who can actually perform in the STEM disciplines.

Just a heads up +30% of recent stem graduates can't find work.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-13 05:56 PM

C'mon, Forced DNA boy only has almost half the posts on his troll the libs thread.

He's still like the kindergarten kid at the zoo running around with a stick to rattle the cages... his only real purpose here.

So boring... he's like BillJohnson with a queue.

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-13 06:18 PM

"As noted in Luke Rosiak's book Race To The Bottom, black students' state math exam scores in these pilot programs plummeted to shocking lows. After years of consistent progress at John Muir Elementary, for example, the passing rate for black students fell from 28 percent to 18 percent after the introduction of the ethnic studies framework.

The basic argument from the "math is racist" crowd is that "white supremacy culture" is endemic to mathematics classrooms, and it's why black students' math scores are lagging white students'.

A coalition of left-wing educators introduced A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction, a toolkit introducing "an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8." The group hopes educators will help remove white supremacy culture from math classes "as they navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism."

#25 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-14 10:34 AM

Hmmmm so 8th graders huh ?

lets see....that would put them in the 4th grade or there about when basic math skills are
one of the primary objectives in almosts
every lesson plan.

it was also the time when the biden Marxist
authoritarian govt forced schools to close
unnecessarily. .....

#26 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-11-15 09:03 AM

-------------, how's the brain dead-------------------'s Trump U doing these days?

#27 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-15 09:10 AM

-Just a heads up +30% of recent stem graduates can't find work.

I suppose STEM is broader than I imagine.

I think engineering when I think of STEM.

They all have jobs.

#28 | Posted by eberly at 2025-11-15 11:27 AM

They all have jobs.
#28 | Posted by eberly

No... Unfortunately they don't.

#29 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-15 12:56 PM