I read your article on remediation reform, “As Reformers Take Aim at Remediation, Community Colleges Feel the Squeeze” (The Chronicle, September 21), and commend you for this coverage. However, it ...

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 ...

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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 ...

・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and student ...

There was a time when graduating from high school signified preparedness for college. Not anymore, according to reports in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about how many college students need ...

Colleges routinely force students with weak math skills to take remedial classes before enrolling in one that yields credit, a requirement that poses one of the biggest hurdles for disadvantaged ...

Carnegie Foundation's remedial math redesign shows big gains but no simple answers to one of higher education's toughest challenges. Improving remedial math won’t be easy. But a complex redesign from ...

I am retired from the University of Montana, where I taught remedial math courses for 22 years. I recently watched the gubernatorial debate on TV. Over and over, from one candidate, I heard that 30 ...

After researching how students are placed in remediation classes, I began to wonder how someone who already has a college degree would do on such a test. So I decided to take the Accuplacer. (Take ...