For years, community colleges in Michigan prided ourselves on attracting large numbers of people to our programs. These included students fresh out of high school but also significant numbers of ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A preliminary report about a City University of New York initiative that provides a semester of ...

It’s a statistic no educator—or student—would boast about: Half a million high school graduates, or about one in four, can’t perform math or write English well enough to avoid having to take remedial ...

You may have heard this week that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced it would give $16.5 million in grants to 15 community colleges and five states (Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Texas and ...

In an effort to reduce the need for remedial education throughout the CSU, system administrators developed a college readiness evaluation program in conjunction with public high schools to help ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE -- The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels' remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only about a quarter of students nationally who ...

Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the top, across a rocky landscape strewn with pedagogical barbed wire and ...

New York’s community college students face long odds of graduating. Only 25 percent of community college students statewide—and just 22 percent in New York City—earn an associate’s degree in three ...

After years of tight finances, the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology plans to cease offering college degrees and to focus instead on a nondegree program in remedial education, the institute’s ...

Remedial course work has long been viewed as a primary barrier to college completion, a black hole from which relatively few students emerge to earn a credential after being placed in the typically ...