Citing middle-school level skills, UC faculty want to restore math, science testing for applicants

More than five years after the UC system lifted its standardized testing requirement, a coalition led by UC Berkeley math ...

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors by 2027, saying that the test-optional policy has created a widening ...
University of Delaware

Math Proficiency Exam

The next exam will take place on Monday, April 5, 2026, from 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Please contact Pascale Larouche, plar@udel.edu , to register for the exam. The deadline to register for this exam is ...

‘Learning Recession’: Why Student Test Scores Have Seen a Decade-Long Decline Across the U.S.

Over the past ten-plus years, American students’ academic achievement has experienced a concerning decline.
Opinion

America’s Math Crisis

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...