Remedial education is expensive and controversial -- but is it effective? That's the question that two education researchers have attempted to answer based on an analysis of nearly 100,000 community ...

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Boosting graduation rates of community college students who need remedial coursework has been a long-standing challenge, but a team of community college professors are gaining followers to their ...

At Rutgers University-Newark, 20 college students were working through a word problem on a rainy February morning when several got stuck. This story also appeared in The Atlantic “I got 1/10 as the ...

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 ...

After Jessica Grubb transferred from Austin Community College to Texas State University, she put off taking math, a requirement for graduation. She had failed or dropped out of remedial-level math ...

The laments about America’s higher education system are long and loud: tuitions are too high, colleges are increasingly hard to get into, classes aren’t available, and students aren’t learning ...

In an ideal world, all students accepted at college would be prepared to handle the work. But the reality is that too many students are being admitted with significant deficits that are identified by ...

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 ...

Chandigarh: The standoff between the UT administration and govt schoolteachers over remedial classes continued Sunday, with the Chandigarh Teachers' A.