Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed Assembly Bill 1705, setting into motion changes that will severely restrict the ability of community colleges to offer remedial math and English courses. The ...

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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 ...

The City Colleges of Chicago, where 88 percent of students test into remedial math, are trying out math literacy classes at two campuses, but most area community colleges have yet to use the approach.

Statistical courses, rather than algebra remediation, do a better job at helping first-year students succeed when they test into developmental education, a new report ...

Developmental education is the bane of community colleges. It costs institutions millions of dollars every year to educate students who come to their campuses unprepared for the rigors of ...

HAVERHILL — On a cool June morning, Lillian Santana is in a remedial math class, stuck on a problem about negative exponents. “I’m thinking you divide,” her classmate says. Santana isn’t sure. She ...

April 2, 2026 - Julie Edwards' daughter brought home a Chromebook from school in second grade to work on math and reading. But soon she was watching Youtube videos. This story was edited at 5:18 p.m.

EAST LANSING - A class that doesn't count toward an undergraduate degree and covers material that students were supposed to have mastered in high school has thwarted more than 1,700 students at ...

DENVER â About 30 percent of new college students in Colorado need remedial courses in math, reading and writing and the number is increasing in some metro area high schools. The numbers are prompting ...