Remedial math and English classes were designed to help students prepare for college-level courses, but research has shown that they actually made it harder for students to finish college. Students ...

Students in North Carolina and Virginia community colleges who started their fall semester have already knocked out credits for math and English and are moving onto their next classes. Both state ...

Judah Lindsey's college career started four weeks early and from his bedroom in his parents' house in Pontiac, rather than on the manicured Rochester Hills campus of Oakland University like he'd ...

President John M. Dunn says he doesn’t think remedial courses at universities lead to “nowhere.” Dunn sat down with journalists at WMUK’s studios on Tuesday to talk about recent news from the ...

Annual cost of college-level remedial help%3A %247 billion Graduation rates lower for those who take a developmental course 60%25 of community college students take at least one remedial course After ...

EdSource · Can we axe remedial classes? This past spring, each community college was required to submit a report to the chancellor’s office explaining whether they planned to offer remedial classes in ...

Nearly two-thirds of 2004's graduating high school seniors now enrolled in Houston-area community colleges are taking remedial classes because they weren't prepared for college. Sixteen local school ...

Despite taxpayers shouldering the cost of remedial courses at public universities, many students required to take such prep courses often leave school without a diploma. As the nation's colleges and ...

More students today are taking at least one year of remedial coursework upon reaching college than five years ago, according to a report from the National Center for Educational Statistics.

Sheila Sandoval remembers feeling ”weird and stupid” about having to take a remedial English class as she began her college career at Christopher Newport University in 1991. But Sandoval, who had just ...

More than one-third of Colorado students need remedial courses when they go to college. That costs students and the state a hefty chunk of change. According to a new report released by the Colorado ...