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Math Sorting: Unintended Consequences of Developmental Education Reforms in Community Colleges
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Soumya Mishra; Elise Swanson; Elif Yucel; Federick Ngo; Tatiana Melguizo; Cheryl Ching – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Beginning in 2019, California community colleges were required to use multiple measures to determine students' placement into initial math courses. Community colleges also created structured BSTEM and liberal arts (SLAM) math pathways beginning in 2017. This contemporaneous implementation could reproduce racialized stratification in math…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, College Mathematics