BETTER U / NO MATH FRESHMAN YEAR A GOOD IDEA, COLLEGE STUDY SAYS

Agony at the chalkboard

Research shows 17% of a population group study experienced high levels of math anxiety. 

GUEST BLOG / By Forrest Lane, Associate Dean and Professor of Educational Research, Sam Houston State College via theconversation.com-- Putting off college math could improve the likelihood that students remain in college. 

But that may only be true as long as students don’t procrastinate more than one year. This is what colleagues and I found in a study published in 2023 of 1,119 students at a public university for whom no remedial coursework was required during their first year. 

Enrolling in a math course during the first semester of college resulted in students being four times more likely to drop out. Although delayed enrollment in a math course had benefits in the first year, its advantages vanished by the end of the second year. In our study, almost 40% of students who postponed the course beyond a year did not attempt it at all and failed to obtain a degree within six years. 

AMERICANA / SWEET SWING OF SUMMER

INSTANT CLASSIC IMAGE. All-Star Elias Diaz of the Colorado Rockies just made contact with a baseball that ended up in the left-field bleachers.  That homerun made the score 3-2 in favor of the National League, which was good enough for the final score in this year's All Star game held in Seattle.  The win snapped an American League winning streak that began in 2012.  The photograph by Associated Press is pure Norman Rockwell.