UC Berkeley Professor Zvezdelina Stankova reveals the semester she first watched a third of her calculus class collapse, having to lower grade cutoffs and redesign her syllabus on the fly

the lower 1/3 that didn’t come to class & wasn’t motivated to learn in high school continued the same habits at Berkeley, an elite institution for stem, while the hardworking kids dying to learn & become the next leading engineers & scientist were rejected again & again at top… https://t.co/gXcS75wI1e

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