Remedial math and English classes were designed to help students prepare for college-level courses, but research has shown that they actually made it harder for students to finish college. Students ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College remediation has earned a bad reputation over the past few years. Hopeful students spend billions of dollars annually to ...

It doesn’t take long to compare the math course offerings at Santa Rosa Junior College this past spring and in the upcoming fall semester to see dramatic changes are underway. Several math classes ...

A growing number of community college systems, in California, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they ...