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Just curious isn’t there a minimum baseline in the US for numeracy and literacy for you to even enroll in higher education? In the UK you needed to have at lea
by tippa123 11mo ago
Just curious isn’t there a minimum baseline in the US for numeracy and literacy for you to even enroll in higher education?
In the UK you needed to have at least a C in maths and English to study at a university. This was 17 years ago.
This was not negotiable and I believe applied to all universities and all courses.
- apparent 11mo agoIn theory, yes. But as the report makes clear, grade inflation is rampant. 25% of the students in remedial math had a 4.0 (straight A) GPA in math during high school. And over 40% of the remedial math students had taken precalc or calculus in high school.