California’s community colleges are being urged to move quickly to overhaul their curriculums so they are ready for the fall of 2019 when drastically fewer students will be required to take remedial ...

Nearly two-thirds of 2004's graduating high school seniors now enrolled in Houston-area community colleges are taking remedial classes because they weren't prepared for college. Sixteen local school ...

Remedial math and English classes were designed to help students prepare for college-level courses, but research has shown that they actually made it harder for students to finish college. Students ...

In 2017, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2223 mandating that all higher education institutions develop and implement corequisite courses for developmental education. According to the Dana ...

Policymakers, colleges, and school districts should take steps to successfully reform remedial education for recent high school graduates. A student uses her calculator during a remedial math class in ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Florida gambled big in 2013 when the state adopted a law eliminating placement exams and remedial ...

T hey’ve tried compressing it, breaking it into bite-size chunks, computerizing it, even making it optional. But the traditional, prerequisite remedial course that generations of underprepared ...

Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state's colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren't college-ready get ...

Back when remedial education was popular in policy circles, it was seen as a way to help those students most at risk of dropping out of college. Instead of immediately finding themselves overwhelmed ...

Paul Medina struggled with remedial math in community college, but ultimately passed a college-level course with intense help from a tutor. Despite a state law that requires community colleges to ...

The data, the first of its kind released by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, also revealed a chasm in college preparedness among schools within Shelby County. Some schools had more than 90 ...

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