The percentage of students entering the state's public colleges and university unprepared for college-level course work has dipped once again, marking the lowest rate in at least the past five years.

Nearly two-thirds of 2004's graduating high school seniors now enrolled in Houston-area community colleges are taking remedial classes because they weren't prepared for college. Sixteen local school ...

Boosting graduation rates of community college students who need remedial coursework has been a long-standing challenge, but a team of community college professors are gaining followers to their ...

Community colleges are increasingly concerned about the large number of students who require remedial education and never make it into college-level classes. And a new study confirms what some have ...

The remedial courses became a critical first step — and often an insurmountable hurdle — for tens of thousands students seeking degrees each year. As a growing body of research questioned the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Medina struggled with remedial math in community college, but ultimately passed a college-level course with intense help from ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series about major reforms in remedial education at California’s public colleges and universities, or what educators now refer to as “developmental ...

The system must be fixed to change the current situation in which students take on large debts they often can't repay, argues Arthur M. Hauptman. Over more than a half century, federal student aid ...