Denver grads face remedial work
by Burt Hubbard and Nancy Mitchell
Amber Mendoza is a freshman at Denver's North High School who is slogging through algebra and looking forward to the day when, diploma in hand, she can say goodbye to high school math forever. Except that, chances are, she won't be able to. More than half of all Denver Public Schools graduates who enroll in a state college or university must take at least one remedial course, according to a Rocky Mountain News analysis, and in most cases, that class is math.
The Rocky Mountain News, 1/12/2009