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 ...

If Achieving the Dream has taught community colleges anything, it is that they must find better ways to move more students through remedial courses. Such courses are often tedious, and many students ...

A developmental mathematics program unveiled on Wednesday by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching shows promise in helping students avoid the remedial quicksand that prevents many ...

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 ...

>>>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 ...

The National Center on Education and the Economy is organizing a program for high school programs in eight states that will allow 10th grade students to pass a series of tests in order to receive a ...

A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention across the state for success in teaching math. Not only are students at Cuyamaca ...

When Nancy McCallin went to Washington, D.C., last week, she sat close enough to President Barack Obama to take some pictures with her smartphone. But the Colorado Community College System president ...

IT’S DISPIRITING to open a community college’s course catalog and see page after page of course descriptions on math fundamentals, including fractions and percentages. Massachusetts can cut down on ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE — To better prepare students for college-level work, leaders of the California State University system Wednesday approved a policy that requires academically deficient students to take ...

More than one-third of Colorado students need remedial courses when they go to college. That costs students and the state a hefty chunk of change. According to a new report released by the Colorado ...