In his recent speech at the University of Texas in Austin, President Obama expressed deep unhappiness that the United States is no longer the country with the highest percentage of college graduates ...

A unique, dual-enrollment program in California is having success with students deemed at risk of needing remediation in college. Seniors participating in the South Los Angeles Math, or SLAM, Project ...

Remedial courses are intended to provide an academic leg up to students who come to college lacking the academic skills they need to survive in higher education. But the courses can be expensive, ...

DAVIE, Fla. -- Professor Derron Bowen teaches high school math to college students, patiently chalking equations on the board on basic arithmetic topics such as the speed of a driver on a a 20-hour ...

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 ...

Louisiana is ending its use of college remedial courses in English and math, embracing instead a model that relies on corequsiite academic assistance in introductory courses. The Louisiana Board of ...

More than a third of community college entrants nationally are required to take remedial courses once in college, thereby delaying student progress toward completing a degree. Angela Boatman, ...

When students are unprepared for the rigors of college, schools often require them to take courses to catch up to their classmates. Those remediation courses, though, do not count toward a degree and ...

Professor Robert Puhak is a rare bird in a class of underprepared college students — a full-time, experienced instructor with no research responsibilities. Photo: Meredith Kolodner At Rutgers ...

Steering new college students into remedial classes can boost a poorly prepared student's chances of success, but doesn't appear to benefit students with a stronger academic background, RTI ...

A majority of students with A and B grade point averages in high school still require developmental education at the community-college level, raising new questions about the skill level of incoming ...