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Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there’s a sense that remedial courses are hurting the prospects ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed Assembly Bill 1705, setting into motion changes that will severely restrict the ability of community colleges to offer remedial math and English courses. The ...

Statistical courses, rather than algebra remediation, do a better job at helping first-year students succeed when they test into developmental education, a new report ...

President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to mock Harvard University's international students, claiming they need ‘remedial math’ lessons and can't add 2+2. This comes after a district judge ...

I’ve heard classmates talk about “not being a math person,” but I’ve never thought of myself that way. I took four years of math in high school and passed all my classes with A’s and B’s. Yet, when I ...

Rogelio Perez has long struggled with math. Had he entered California State University last year, his C grades and low standardized test scores would have steered him into a non-credit remedial math ...

Growing numbers of universities are being forced to give remedial maths lessons to students who gave up the subject at school, scientists have warned. The Royal Society of Chemistry claimed that ...

Nica Lampe, a freshman at Cal State Fullerton, didn’t know her math class this fall was part of a revolution throughout the California State University system. She was delighted, however, to reap the ...

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 ...

If Achieving the Dream has taught community colleges anything, it is that they must find better ways to move more students through remedial courses. Such courses are often tedious, and many students ...