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Community colleges offer new classes to prepare students for calculus, comply with controversial law

Community colleges offer new classes to prepare students for calculus, comply with controversial law

Joshua Robles, a math instructor at Pasadena City College, helps students with trigonometry problems. Michael Burke/EdSource Top Takeaways A new […]

December 5, 2025

Community colleges offer new classes to prepare students for calculus, comply with controversial law

Community colleges offer new classes to prepare students for calculus, comply with controversial law

Joshua Robles, a math instructor at Pasadena City College, helps students with trigonometry problems. Credit: Michael Burke/EdSource Top Takeaways A […]

December 5, 2025

Community colleges offer new classes to prepare students for calculus, comply with controversial law

Community colleges offer new classes to prepare students for calculus, comply with controversial law

Joshua Robles, a math instructor at Pasadena City College, helps students with trigonometry problems. Credit: Michael Burke/EdSource Top Takeaways A […]

December 5, 2025

Community college math policy: Balancing big picture gains and classroom struggles

Community college math policy: Balancing big picture gains and classroom struggles

Is this a picture of something bad, or something good? Cognitive scientists call this the global-local processing dilemma: Do we […]

June 17, 2025

Community colleges loosen STEM math placement rules, calming some critics

Community colleges loosen STEM math placement rules, calming some critics

STEM students at California community colleges will be able to enroll in calculus prerequisites like trigonometry if they didn’t take […]

December 13, 2024

New math placement rules undermine preparation of community college STEM majors

New math placement rules undermine preparation of community college STEM majors

Credit: Allison Shelley / EDUimages For an update on this topic, please see: Community colleges loosen STEM math placement rules, […]

October 8, 2024