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 ...

More than a third of Alabama high school graduates who attend college in-state must take remedial courses in their freshman year because they cannot do college-level work, an analysis of new data from ...

Donaciano Botello, 26, left, a first year Master's student at Sacramento State University, works as a volunteer at a Sacramento State Super Sunday event in 2015 to help recruit Quanisha Sims, 26, ...

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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 ...

Cal State plans to drop placement exams in math and English as well as the noncredit remedial courses that more than 25,000 freshmen have been required to take each fall — a radical move away from the ...

Sheila Sandoval remembers feeling ”weird and stupid” about having to take a remedial English class as she began her college career at Christopher Newport University in 1991. But Sandoval, who had just ...

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 ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing With an eye to increasing graduation rates, the California State University is adopting far-reaching strategies to help ...

At City College of San Francisco, one of the country’s largest public universities, thousands of struggling students pour into remedial English and math classes and then the vast majority disappear, ...

Recently, the trustees at the City University of New York voted to eliminate remedial education programs at its 11 four-year schools. Mayor Giuliani heralded the trustees for their “courageous vote.” ...

Chet Jordan stood in front of his class at Guttman Community College dressed in black skinny jeans and a bowler hat, sipping coffee. He took a straw poll of his students: How many of you know that ...