Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College of the Desert is a public community college in Palm Desert, Calif. Two years after California implemented a law requiring ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets Until recently, most students at Cuyamaca College near San Diego had to take multiple English remedial classes before ...

With students whose average age is 28, community colleges are used to attracting people who haven’t been in a classroom in more than a decade. But the students who are crowding into remedial classes ...

In 2017, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2223 mandating that all higher education institutions develop and implement corequisite courses for developmental education. According to the Dana ...

T hey’ve tried compressing it, breaking it into bite-size chunks, computerizing it, even making it optional. But the traditional, prerequisite remedial course that generations of underprepared ...

Despite evidence showing community college students are passing transfer-level math and English courses without first taking remedial classes, hundreds of students in the central San Joaquin Valley ...

A new report reveals large numbers of community college students need remedial classes and are dropping out of school. Most community college students in California get stuck in basic-skills math and ...

Three years after 1,724 students sat for placement exam only 76 students earned an associate's degree Colleges fear standardized placement tests correlate more closely with race, class and income ...

Despite taxpayers shouldering the cost of remedial courses at public universities, many students required to take such prep courses often leave school without a diploma. As the nation's colleges and ...