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 ...

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, ...

College algebra is a shockingly common stumbling block to graduation. About 50 percent of students each year fail to pass college algebra with a grade of “C” or better, according to the Mathematical ...

Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva said Thursday that adjustments are needed in middle and high school math instruction to eliminate the need for students to take remedial math courses in ...

Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the top, across a rocky landscape strewn with pedagogical barbed wire and ...

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As the White House moves to revoke Harvard University's certification to enroll foreign students — escalating a battle between the administration and the oldest and wealthiest college in the U.S. — ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention ...

Remedial course work has long been viewed as a primary barrier to college completion, a black hole from which relatively few students emerge to earn a credential after being placed in the typically ...

Tennessee’s unique approach to preparing students for college by requiring them to take remedial math classes in high schools instead of college doesn’t lead to improved math skills, according to a ...