>>>CORRECTION: There are 7, 740 students enrolled in remedial courses, not between 3,800 and 3,900 like the story stated. Also, it read the number of students enrolled in English remedial courses has ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

Until recently, most students at Cuyamaca College near San Diego had to take multiple English remedial classes before they could enter the English course that mattered most to many — the one they ...

In a recent quiz for her class of incoming Cal State Fullerton freshmen – who had all failed an algebra placement exam – Cherlyn Converse asked the students to solve a polynomial equation by factoring ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new structure for remedial courses at Mississippi’s 15 community colleges could help more students graduate more quickly. The centerpiece of the model is an effort to move some ...

During my first year in college, I, along with most of my fellow freshmen, had to take English 101. The only students who did not have to take this class filled with the writings of Shakespeare, ...

The vast majority of California community college students take remedial math and English classes — but that college-prep work is largely failing to help most of them complete their academic or ...

Despite taxpayers shouldering the cost of remedial courses at public universities, many students required to take such prep courses often leave school without a diploma. As the nation's colleges and ...

Louisiana is ending its use of college remedial courses in English and math, embracing instead a model that relies on corequsiite academic assistance in introductory courses. The Louisiana Board of ...

Three years after 1,724 students sat for placement exam only 76 students earned an associate's degree Colleges fear standardized placement tests correlate more closely with race, class and income ...

Fed up with long rosters of college freshmen who can’t handle college-level courses, states are increasingly turning to 12th grade transition classes to build academic muscle to help students skip the ...