This year millions of students entering college are being forced to take a remedial course in math or English - sometimes both - because they scored too low on standardized entrance or placement exams ...

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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 ...

Despite rising high school graduation rates, the percentage of students tracked into remedial courses in college is high, according to a new report produced by Civic Enterprises and Johns Hopkins ...

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With the economy in the doldrums, millions of students are streaming into America's community colleges, most hoping they have embarked on the pathway to a good job or career. Unfortunately, many never ...

In an effort to reduce the need for remedial education throughout the CSU, system administrators developed a college readiness evaluation program in conjunction with public high schools to help ...

After UNLV sophomore Vince Briones failed his remedial math class for the third time, he faced a choice: Try once again in the fall or spend the summer in an intensive math course known as Math Bridge ...

A “bridge to nowhere,” a “bottomless pit,” a “thorn in the side of higher education.” If you’ve been keeping up with the movement to reform—and potentially eliminate—remedial college courses, it would ...

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 ...

Happy New Year to you and to our readers. 2009 is shaping up to be an important year for American education. We will soon have a new Secretary of Education, a new voice in charge of the nation’s bully ...

More states are moving away from remedial education, finding the noncredit classes are more of a detour than an on-ramp to a college degree. The classes, typically assigned to first-year students who ...