Oswego School District 308 parents claim summer remedial program targets all minority students, regardless of performance

Some parents in southwest suburban Oswego are fired up, saying the school district invited all non-white students to ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Introducing a Remedial Program That Actually Works

Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the top, across a rocky landscape strewn with pedagogical barbed wire and ...
LAist

Community college remedial program 'broken,' doing more harm than good, advocates say

A report out this week and a proposed state law take aim at the way California community colleges place most incoming students into classes to improve their skills. In a typical year, California ...
Post and Courier

Colleges seek to improve most remedial programs

BALTIMORE — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only about a quarter of students nationally who ...
Daily Sundial

Program looks to curb CSU remedial education

In an effort to reduce the need for remedial education throughout the CSU, system administrators developed a college readiness evaluation program in conjunction with public high schools to help ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Positive Results for Remedial Program at NYC Community Colleges

A program known as “Start” is helping the growing number of students who need remediation at New York City’s community colleges, The New York Times reports. The low-cost course, offered by the City ...
KSL

Colleges seek to improve remedial programs

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