Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there’s a sense that remedial courses are hurting the prospects ...

Mathematics continues to pose formidable challenges to college students of all ages and backgrounds. It remains vital that we use achievable and proven routes to prepare both new and nontraditional ...

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 ...

The percentage of students taking remedial math classes at Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College is an eye-popping statistic. Of the 2009-’10 graduates from Spokane Public ...

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Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...

Taking remedial courses can feel like a waste of money and time for any student who is interested in the cheapest and fastest path to a degree. But students who don't do well on placement exams may be ...

America’s amazing technological achievements, such as SpaceX’s recent rescue of stranded astronauts, mask the death spiral of math learning in the U.S., which has reached an ignominious low with ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

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Rogelio Perez has long struggled with math. Had he entered California State University last year, his C grades and low standardized test scores would have steered him into a non-credit remedial math ...

At City College of San Francisco, one of the country’s largest public universities, thousands of struggling students pour into remedial English and math classes and then the vast majority disappear, ...