A new state law directs UW system schools to report a new set of data to the legislature and the state Department of Public Instruction. This is about remedial college classes, how many students are ...

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Beyond its building boom, perhaps the most notable developments at Jackson Community College this decade has been its push to make sure incoming students are ready to learn. As we saw last week, that ...

Cal State plans to drop placement exams in math and English as well as the noncredit remedial courses that more than 25,000 freshmen have been required to take each fall — a radical move away from the ...

The California State University system plans to overhaul its remedial education system by 2018, scrapping no-credit courses in English and math and replacing them with credit classes that include ...

Stephanie Weiner teaches a City Colleges English-language class to about 15 Hispanic students in the Wicker Park neighborhood. Her first classroom was the basement of the New Tiberia Baptist Church.

South Bend, Ind. - About 70 percent of first-time students at Ivy Tech Community College campuses are required to take remedial classes before they can enroll for college credit. The need for remedial ...

More than a third of Alabama high school graduates who attend college in-state must take remedial courses in their freshman year because they cannot do college-level work, an analysis of new data from ...

Nearly half of all New York City public school graduates who head to local community colleges are forced into remedial classes to survive their first semester, troubling new data obtained by The Post ...