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In co-requisite remediation, students who have been assessed as not yet ready for college work receive extra help while they take a college-level course instead of receiving a traditional, ...

Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state's colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren't college-ready get ...

California’s community colleges are being urged to move quickly to overhaul their curriculums so they are ready for the fall of 2019 when drastically fewer students will be required to take remedial ...

Anthony Rodriguez recalled sitting in a remedial math class at Grossmont College in El Cajon bored out of his mind. The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already ...

When the College Board launched its Advanced Placement Precalculus course in 2022, it aimed to expand students’ access to advanced math courses and open more doors for students to earn college credit ...

Many colleges use one test to decide whether incoming freshmen have to take remedial courses, a turning point that can slow down—or block—their progress toward graduation. But a new study shows that ...

A “bridge to nowhere,” a “bottomless pit,” a “thorn in the side of higher education.” If you’ve been keeping up with the movement to reform—and potentially eliminate—remedial college courses, it would ...

Today’s lesson is how to add mixed numbers: 6 2 / 13 + 8 7 / 26. “Is anyone still having difficulty finding the least common denominator?” the instructor, Robert Fusco, asks. One student raises her ...