wow--just found this

I'll pull it up front!

First I have to get Andrew to school...

-- CatherineJohnson - 25 Oct 2005

From A Brief History of American K-12 Mathematics Education in the 20th Century by David Klein:

The following table gives percentages of high school students enrolled in high school math courses.

Percentages of U.S. High School Students Enrolled in Various Courses

Maybe this has something to do with Core-Plus. Core-Plus was heavily promoted in Michigan.

I have not seen any pattern like this (85% increase) at the University of Akron where I teach.

-- CharlesWilliams - 24 Oct 2005

more from Lone Ranger's article

A couple of lines caught my eye in the article Lone Ranger sent Carolyn:

The problem is clear in the enrollment for remedial math at Wayne State, which has soared 85% in the last four years. There are 1,200 students in 12 sections of the class, a computer-based course.

"These students are coming in at the level of ninth-grade math," said Patty Bonesteel, developmental math coordinator at Wayne State. "Without a doubt, the idea of being bad at math is perfectly fine in our culture, and that's unfortunate."

going into the 13th grade doing 9th grade work

Golden Ageism

"It's a national survival issue," Geltner said. "The American standards of education are simply not world class anymore."