Cesar Bernardo Torres faced at least a year of remedial math courses before he could enter College Statistics and receive credit towards his degree. He felt hopeless about his prospects for completion until he learned about and enrolled in Statway.
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LA School Report: Speed up the route to graduation with alternative math pathways
In his op-ed for the LA School Report, professor of mathematics Scott Guth champions Statway as a practical and rigorous way for students to demonstrate quantitative literacy. He expresses what so many others in this arena have voiced before: neither the traditional math sequence nor traditional models of remediation are aligned to help students succeed as much as possible, particularly for students of color who are disproportionately affected by remediation policies. Statway, he says, is an immersive, collaborative way to address the inadequacy of existing math remediation.
The Mercury News: Want a college degree? Here’s how to meet math requirements painlessly
Cheryl Cowan was in her 40s when she lost her job and decided to return to school to obtain her degree. At San Jose City College, she was crushed to learn that because she didn’t pass the math placement exam, she’d have to take two years of remedial math classes before she could enroll in college-level math for her major. She gave up.
Fast forward to the present: she is now a 4.0 student on track to graduate with a degree in Organizational Studies and a minor in Anthropology in large part because of her Statway course at San Jose State University.
