Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series about major reforms in remedial education at California’s public colleges and universities, or what educators now refer to as “developmental ...

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With the goal to efficiently place students on the college track, Ocean County College (OCC) in New Jersey has created customized online learning pathways based on results from students’ placement ...

Chet Jordan stood in front of his class at Guttman Community College dressed in black skinny jeans and a bowler hat, sipping coffee. He took a straw poll of his students: How many of you know that ...

In comparison, 1 percent of four-year college students needed remediation in English, 2 percent in reading and 10 percent in math. The SOAR report also found that students that took a less rigorous ...

A new report reveals large numbers of community college students need remedial classes and are dropping out of school. Most community college students in California get stuck in basic-skills math and ...

It doesn’t take long to compare the math course offerings at Santa Rosa Junior College this past spring and in the upcoming fall semester to see dramatic changes are underway. Several math classes ...

More than a third of Alabama high school graduates who attend college in-state must take remedial courses in their freshman year because they cannot do college-level work, an analysis of new data from ...

I tell my students that I didn’t start college until I was 31, but that’s only half true. In fact, I started when I was 17, dropped out before completing a semester, restarted at 20 and dropped out ...