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UCSD says 18% of freshmen failed Algebra 1, an eighth grade class. That is the state of our schools.
Hard to pretend this is normal when a top university is saying freshmen can’t do middle-school math. This is actually quite shocking. When I was in high school, I was taking pre-calculus classes in high school and placed directly into calculus as a freshman in college. No my school wasn’t special, just a normal high …
ISM Contracts in October for the Eighth Consecutive Month but Prices Rise
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, The manufacturing ISM continues to reek of mild stagflation. ISM chart and excerpts below by permission from the Institute for Supply Management® ISM® Note: Supplier Deliveries is the only ISM® PMI® Reports index that is inversed; a reading of above 50 percent indicates slower deliveries. Please consider the October 2025 Manufacturing ISM® Report …