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 ...

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 ...

Increasing the number of students ready to transfer to four-year colleges has been a goal of California’s community college system since its inception over a century ago. The transfer curriculum is ...

The National Center on Education and the Economy is organizing a program for high school programs in eight states that will allow 10th grade students to pass a series of tests in order to receive a ...

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After Jessica Grubb transferred from Austin Community College to Texas State University, she put off taking math, a requirement for graduation. She had failed or dropped out of remedial-level math ...

Studying the effects of remedial education is a little like studying the effects of heart surgery. Simply comparing the fates of those who underwent it with those who did not yields terribly ...

Academic programs that provide alternatives to traditional remedial education help students succeed at community colleges, but different programs result in a range of outcomes for various ...

Remedial courses appear to improve poorly prepared college students’ odds of eventually completing a degree, two economists reported in a working paper distributed in June. The new study, which draws ...

The problem is so profound that the advocacy group Complete College America dubs remedial classes the "bridge to nowhere." The challenge, educators say, is that even as billions are spent annually on ...