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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The remedial courses became a critical first step — and often an insurmountable hurdle — for tens of thousands students seeking degrees each year. As a growing body of research questioned the ...

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 ...

I tell my students that I didn’t start college until I was 31, but that’s only half true. In fact, I started when I was 17, dropped out before completing a semester, restarted at 20 and dropped out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang recently reiterated the ban on remedial teaching that most heads of primary and secondary schools practice. Dr Kipsang observed that the eight school ...

No question, remedial education needs an overhaul. Millions of young adults get trapped in rudimentary math and English classes that don't earn them college credits but still cost the same tuition.