One of the former chairs of our department (CS at the University of Chicago) has a saying, "all curriculum reforms initially succeed." So I'm not surprised tha

One of the former chairs of our department (CS at the University of Chicago) has a saying, "all curriculum reforms initially succeed." So I'm not surprised that the pilot program had great pass rates, as pilot programs are usually staffed by eager people with amazing support networks who are interested in putting in the time to make it work. It'll be more interesting if SJSU does ramp up their experiments to start to include professors or lecturers who are just fulfilling their service requirements and seeing what the difference is between student performance under those faculty and the prior model.