>>>CORRECTION: There are 7, 740 students enrolled in remedial courses, not between 3,800 and 3,900 like the story stated. Also, it read the number of students enrolled in English remedial courses has ...

Boosting graduation rates of community college students who need remedial coursework has been a long-standing challenge, but a team of community college professors are gaining followers to their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College of the Desert is a public community college in Palm Desert, Calif. Two years after California implemented a law requiring ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets Until recently, most students at Cuyamaca College near San Diego had to take multiple English remedial classes before ...

The percentage of students entering the state's public colleges and university unprepared for college-level course work has dipped once again, marking the lowest rate in at least the past five years.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new structure for remedial courses at Mississippi's 15 community colleges could help more students graduate more quickly. The centerpiece of the model is an effort to move some ...

Cal State plans to drop placement exams in math and English as well as the noncredit remedial courses that more than 25,000 freshmen have been required to take each fall — a radical move away from the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For the first time, any high school student who receives an ACT test score of at least 18 in English, 21 in reading and 22 in math will not have to take remedial courses in any Ohio ...

A new report released today by Complete College America (CCA) highlights the impressive success of an alternative to traditional remedial education being used by the University System of Georgia (USG) ...

The vast majority of California community college students take remedial math and English classes — but that college-prep work is largely failing to help most of them complete their academic or ...

This year millions of students entering college are being forced to take a remedial course in math or English - sometimes both - because they scored too low on standardized entrance or placement exams ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...