Sheila Sandoval remembers feeling ”weird and stupid” about having to take a remedial English class as she began her college career at Christopher Newport University in 1991. But Sandoval, who had just ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE — To better prepare students for college-level work, leaders of the California State University system Wednesday approved a policy that requires academically deficient students to take ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For the first time, any high school student who receives an ACT test score of at least 18 in English, 21 in reading and 22 in math will not have to take remedial courses in any Ohio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken March 12, 2014, shows student Rahman Hassan holding a pencil as he works on an exercise in a remedial English ...

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 ...

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new structure for remedial courses at Mississippi's 15 community colleges could help more students graduate more quickly. The centerpiece of the model is an effort to move some ...

A new program at CSUN will attempt to alleviate the need for remedial education as proposed by a California State University Remedial Education Policy. The policy is designed to dramatically reduce ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

More students, especially black and Latino students, are benefiting from the elimination of remedial classes in California’s community colleges, according to a new report. An analysis released by the ...