President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced the results of a year-long crackdown on safety gaps caused by illegal immigration in the trucking industry.
Fox News reports that Operation Highway Shield began in Florida earlier this year and that the DOT has since expanded the effort to multiple states in the Midwest, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio.
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Student skills are diminishing.
Recently, more than 1,800 math and science lecturers at the University of California signed an open letter outlining a distressing problem. First-year undergraduates, they say, are increasingly arriving without the basic skills needed to succeed. At U.C. Berkeley, they maintain that 20-30% of students taking an early calculus course face “severe preparation deficits.” The challenge has become so great, they add, that instructors are forced to reteach middle-school math.
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