The California State University system plans to overhaul its remedial education system by 2018, scrapping no-credit courses in English and math and replacing them with credit classes that include ...

Anthony Rodriguez recalled sitting in a remedial math class at Grossmont College in El Cajon bored out of his mind. The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already ...

The numbers were embarrassing to everyone involved. Eight out of ten students at California's community colleges needed remedial education. In other words, courses just to get them up to college-level ...

A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than ...

DAVIE, Fla. -- Professor Derron Bowen teaches high school math to college students, patiently chalking equations on the board on basic arithmetic topics such as the speed of a driver on a a 20-hour ...

Reformers have scored legislative progress in their efforts to enroll many more California community college students in credit-bearing courses instead of remedial classes, with placements based on ...

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 ...

Two studies released this year revealed that more incoming college students need to take remedial coursework âÄî but numbers at the University are down. âÄúDiploma to Nowhere,âÄù a national report ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The number of Colorado high school graduates who needed to take remedial classes when they entered college went up for the second consecutive year last year, ...

The percentage of 2012 Durango High School graduates who required remedial assistance in at least one subject after enrolling in college was higher than in the previous two years. A report released ...

Remedial education at California’s community colleges is facing a death blow. Awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature is a bill that would mostly ban remedial math and English classes, which can’t ...

Anthony Rodriguez recalled sitting in a remedial math class at Grossmont College in El Cajon bored out of his mind. The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already ...