In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

The University System of Maryland has come up with a way to help liberal arts students who struggle with algebra. Encourage them to take statistics instead. University system administrators are using ...

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To balance that, Hacker argues that we do need a solid ability to reason is systemic and/or quantitative ways, and he seems to think statistics is a better way to do that, or possibly in some parts of ...