Ed Source – Pat Maio
“In the not-too-distant future, high school students bound for a California State University campus who thought they could slide through their senior year without taking a math course might instead be hitting the books. CSU’s Academic Senate, which represents faculty at all 23 campuses in the system, approved a resolution this spring calling for entering freshmen to take four years of high school math, rather than the current three. Worried that “mathematics skills decline with a lack of practice,” the resolution recommends that during their final year of high school students take a course in mathematics or some other “quantitative reasoning” course like statistics, computer science or coding, which helps students create computer software.”(more)