UC Berkeley Professor Discovers What Her Peers Built

UC Berkeley Professor Discovers What Her Peers Built

A University of California, Berkeley mathematics professor recently expressed public frustration that her college students arrive unable to handle basic skills—fractions, elementary algebra, the kind of material once expected well before high school graduation. The complaint is real, the classroom reality is documented, and the irony is thick enough to cut with a protractor. The professor, Zvezdelina Stankova, was born in communist Bulgaria and …