Remedial classes are required of college students who fail to meet academic standards set by placement testing. Although the courses are intended to help students prepare for college-level work, they ...

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Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state's colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren't college-ready get ...

Studying the effects of remedial education is a little like studying the effects of heart surgery. Simply comparing the fates of those who underwent it with those who did not yields terribly ...

In 2017, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2223 mandating that all higher education institutions develop and implement corequisite courses for developmental education. According to the Dana ...

Nica Lampe, a freshman at Cal State Fullerton, didn’t know her math class this fall was part of a revolution throughout the California State University system. She was delighted, however, to reap the ...

Developmental courses, also called remedial courses, build a student's proficiency in a subject area such as math or reading. Students do not receive college degree-earning credit for completing ...

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 ...

Despite taxpayers shouldering the cost of remedial courses at public universities, many students required to take such prep courses often leave school without a diploma. As the nation's colleges and ...

Arguing that too many community college students are getting stuck in remedial classes, California lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would create stricter rules dictating when colleges are allowed ...