But a recent move by CSU affecting students transferring from community colleges threatens to undermine community college efforts to do the same. The culprit is Intermediate Algebra, a high-school level course of technical procedures that most college students will never use, either in college or in life. To meet the Intermediate Algebra standard, they are often required to take two years of remedial courses that don’t count for transfer credit at CSU. As a result, every year, more than 170,000 California community college students are placed into remedial math based on how well they do on a standardized test in algebra.

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by Christopher Edley, Jr., EdSource.

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