Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the top, across a rocky landscape strewn with pedagogical barbed wire and ...

This photo taken March 12, 2014, shows student Rahman Hassan holding a pencil as he works on an exercise in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College in Baltimore. Only about a ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- As budgets thin, many public universities around the country have begun outsourcing remedial education to community colleges. Some scholars, however, maintain that these ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A preliminary report about a City University of New York initiative that provides a semester of ...

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 ...

Ismael Pena arrived at Kingsborough Community College last fall unable to write well enough to keep up with his classwork. After a few months in a highly touted program that is being copied around the ...

The Nazareth Area School District has embarked on voluntary review of its federally funded Chapter 1 remedial program to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the program. The project, which takes ...

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 ...

A report out this week and a proposed state law take aim at the way California community colleges place most incoming students into classes to improve their skills. In a typical year, California ...

A new program at CSUN will attempt to alleviate the need for remedial education as proposed by a California State University Remedial Education Policy. The policy is designed to dramatically reduce ...

In 2012 the 23 campuses of the California State University began requiring incoming freshmen who’d tested below college level in math and English to take a summer class. The program is called Early ...