Policymakers, colleges, and school districts should take steps to successfully reform remedial education for recent high school graduates. A student uses her calculator during a remedial math class in ...

Remedial education is also known as compensatory or developmental education. It is designed in a unique way to help children achieve an expected level of competency in core academic skills like ...

This year millions of students entering college are being forced to take a remedial course in math or English - sometimes both - because they scored too low on standardized entrance or placement exams ...

Four years ago, the Florida Legislature changed the trajectory of developmental education across the state’s 28 open-access colleges by making remedial classes optional for most students. Enrollment ...

Remedial education in schools, to improve learning abilities of children, must not be seen as an add-on facility but a core and sustainable component in the schooling system. This will not only ...

With the economy in the doldrums, millions of students are streaming into America's community colleges, most hoping they have embarked on the pathway to a good job or career. Unfortunately, many never ...

The nation is unlikely to meet its ambitious college-completion goals unless remedial-education reformers spend more time examining the nonacademic factors that hold students back, according to a ...

The pandemic has forced community colleges and universities to rethink their approach to remedial education, as they're unable to rely on the usual in-person placement tests and students' needs have ...

As many as 60 percent of entering college freshmen are placed into remedial education courses to develop skills that they should have learned in high school, at a cost of more than $1 billion annually ...