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 ...

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 ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

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 ...

In a small classroom at UNLV, the four students who showed up to Chyna Miller’s Math 096 class are learning algebra. She’s reviewing a fraction problem on a recent exam, probing students for an answer ...

Test your math know-how with sample questions from the new Accuplacer. Related Article I graduated from college nearly 25 years ago. Wondering if I’d be considered college-ready now, I arranged at a ...

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 ...

This piece isn’t about the fact that traditional remediation is a bottomless pit from which many students never escape (though it is a bottomless pit). And it isn’t about the fact that corequisite ...