Taking remedial courses can feel like a waste of money and time for any student who is interested in the cheapest and fastest path to a degree. But students who don't do well on placement exams may be ...

Nearly two-thirds of 2004's graduating high school seniors now enrolled in Houston-area community colleges are taking remedial classes because they weren't prepared for college. Sixteen local school ...

Chicago Public Schools students who used online courses to make up for failed math classes fared worse than those who took traditional remedial courses during summer school, according to new research ...

A large number of California’s community college students face roadblocks in their education and drop out because they are required to take remedial — or what college officials call developmental — ...

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A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention across the state for success in teaching math. Not only are students at Cuyamaca ...

As many as 60 percent of entering college freshmen are placed into remedial education courses to develop skills that they should have learned in high school, at a cost of more than $1 billion annually ...

Rogelio Perez has long struggled with math. Had he entered California State University last year, his C grades and low standardized test scores would have steered him into a non-credit remedial math ...

For a while, Miami Dade College student Jazmin Rojas thought about transferring to University of Phoenix, where she could get tuition support from her employer. But then she discovered she'd have to ...

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 ...