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Advanced math -- AP Calculus or AP Statistics -- leads to higher pay
AP Statistics students earn almost as much as AP Calculus students eight years after college.

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 303 min read
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STEM students will face sink-or-swim calculus in California
California community colleges will require unprepared STEM majors to be placed in calculus.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Darning socks, shorthand, algebra
Selective colleges should stop expecting top students to take calculus, argues Scott White in Forbes. I was with him that far. My...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 28, 20231 min read
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They passed calculus, but can't add fractions
Alex Small, who teaches physics at Cal Poly Pomona, keeps seeing students who passed calculus in high school, but aren't prepared for...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20222 min read
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