Nearly two-thirds of recent high school graduates who enroll at the area’s community colleges need remedial classes to fill gaps in basic English, reading and math, according to data collected from ...

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DonnaJean Fredeen, dean of the school of arts and science at Southern Connecticut State University, is all about making sure students are ready for college work and helping them graduate on time. She ...

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Fifteen years ago, a broad coalition of foundations, nonprofits and educators launched a bold effort to reform the vast system of college remedial education that was destroying the higher education ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course ...

As the regular application deadlines approach this month, getting into college is top of mind for many high school seniors. But students assume that if a college admits them, it means the school has ...

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 ...

States should re-examine the content of their standardized tests for high-school students so the examinations align more closely with the skills and knowledge that colleges expect freshmen to have ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Cecilia Lopez Alvarado was scrolling through Reddit one evening in her dorm room when she came ...

Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some, ...

College algebra is a shockingly common stumbling block to graduation. About 50 percent of students each year fail to pass college algebra with a grade of “C” or better, according to the Mathematical ...