Is math holding the United States back?
Last week, a community-college student from Harlem, speaking at a meeting of educators and community activists, told a harrowing story about his battle to get a degree. Raised by a single mother in a neighborhood wracked by violence, he had struggled to make it through high school. Then his mother died of cancer, leaving him to raise his three younger siblings alone. He pressed on in school despite new emotional and financial burdens, but there was a remaining obstacle that sometimes seemed like it would overwhelm him: algebra.
- Huffington Post
The major problem in schools across America is the Mathematics Remediation course. I am a college freshman and my story is very similar to his. It should be a recommendation not a requirement.