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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Remedial courses appear to improve poorly prepared college students’ odds of eventually completing a degree, two economists reported in a working paper distributed last week. The new study, which ...

The City University of New York system ended the last of its remedial math and English courses this fall, according to a press release sent Thursday. The classes have been replaced by corequisite ...

Community-college students who register for their college-level classes before the term begins are 11 times more likely to persist into their second year, while students whose instructors enforce ...

Policies placing first-year college students assessed as needing remedial math directly into college-level quantitative courses, with additional support, can increase student success, according to a ...

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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 ...

After Jessica Grubb transferred from Austin Community College to Texas State University, she put off taking math, a requirement for graduation. She had failed or dropped out of remedial-level math ...

Fed up with long rosters of college freshmen who can’t handle college-level courses, states are increasingly turning to 12th grade transition classes to build academic muscle to help students skip the ...

Donaciano Botello, 26, left, a first year Master's student at Sacramento State University, works as a volunteer at a Sacramento State Super Sunday event in 2015 to help recruit Quanisha Sims, 26, ...