More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

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The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...

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 ...