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Students at Kent State University (Photo by Sarah Butrymowicz)
KENT, Ohio—As finals approached, nearly 240 students in a computer lab worked through basic algebra problems at Kent State University, where they and more than 3,200 of their classmates had been deemed unprepared for college-level math. They struggled to solve for x in equations like 3x + 1 = 7—a skill students are meant to master in middle school. (The correct answer: x = 2.)
Just down the hallway, university officials were trying to crunch a few numbers of their own, analyzing how much