Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state's colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren't college-ready get ...
T hey’ve tried compressing it, breaking it into bite-size chunks, computerizing it, even making it optional. But the traditional, prerequisite remedial course that generations of underprepared ...
Paul Medina struggled with remedial math in community college, but ultimately passed a college-level course with intense help from a tutor. Despite a state law that requires community colleges to ...
EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities Before Aida Tseggai could major in biology at Cal State Dominguez Hills, she had to catch up in math. She ...
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When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on ...
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 ...