At a Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, Tristan Denley, Louisiana’s deputy commissioner of academic affairs and innovation, shared an encouraging statistic: Course completion for entry-level math has ...

Keith Schloeman was at a conference for community college math instructors five years ago when he first heard about corequisite courses. At the time the courses were still evolving as an approach to ...

A recent article (“The End of the Remedial Course,” The Chronicle, February 18) and essay (“Replacing Remedial Courses? Be Careful,” The Chronicle, February 18) report some misconceptions about ...

On a sunny morning in Salem, community college math instructor Keith Schloeman wanders through a quiet classroom, checking on small groups of students reviewing what he’s taught them about probability ...

Julia Short remembers hating mathematics throughout middle and high school. Short didn’t understand math and thought she never would. That uncertainty and anxiety seeped into her confidence, making ...

Several other states that have replaced prerequisite classes with a ‘corequisite’ learning model in community colleges have shown higher rates of student success. Clatsop Community College is one of ...

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on ...

After UNLV sophomore Vince Briones failed his remedial math class for the third time, he faced a choice: Try once again in the fall or spend the summer in an intensive math course known as Math Bridge ...

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The corequisite MATH 0925/1400 course is designed to present the material from both MATH 0925 and MATH 1400 with the assumption that students have not yet mastered the content in MATH 0925. The ...

Two years ago, Jennifer Hughes was 45 and supporting four children ages 11 to 22 when she was laid off from her job as an operations manager at a seafood company in Astoria. Nurses, she knew, could ...

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