As Governor Jerry Brown calls for math reform, LearningWorks initiatives emerge.

26 Feb 2016

Oakland, Calif., March 1, 2016. LearningWorks was featured in an article in EdSource about Governor Jerry Brown’s intent to ask California institutions to reform math education.

The governor announced a plan intended to bridge the widening comprehension gap between high school and postsecondary mathematics, which has proven a great obstacle to student enrollment and graduation at postsecondary institutions.

The article highlighted the work of LearningWorks’ Pamela Burdman, who last year published the three-part Degrees of Freedom series detailing the problem of college mathematics requirements and their role in limiting students’ access to higher education.

Read the full article here.