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 ...

Remedial course work has long been viewed as a primary barrier to college completion, a black hole from which relatively few students emerge to earn a credential after being placed in the typically ...

One in four students have to enroll in remedial classes their first year of college, costing their families nearly $1.5 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by Education Reform Now, a ...

A new report released today by Complete College America (CCA) highlights the impressive success of an alternative to traditional remedial education being used by the University System of Georgia (USG) ...

Florida gambled big in 2013 when the state adopted a law eliminating placement exams and remedial college courses and gave recent high school graduates the option to take college-level introductory ...

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 ...

FROM REMEDIAL TO ‘CO-REQUISITE’: Minnesota could soon join other states that have shifted from remedial education in favor of co-requisite courses. These courses are growing in popularity as an ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Record numbers of students are arriving on community college campuses this fall, but a majority of them—nearly 60 percent—aren’t academically prepared to handle the ...

Sign up for EdSource’s free daily newsletter to stay ahead of what’s changing in California education. A large number of California’s community college students ...

It’s a statistic no educator—or student—would boast about: Half a million high school graduates, or about one in four, can’t perform math or write English well enough to avoid having to take remedial ...

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 ...

At Rutgers University-Newark, 20 college students were working through a word problem on a rainy February morning when several got stuck. “I got 1/10 as the answer, but the computer says it’s 0.1,” ...