>>>CORRECTION: There are 7, 740 students enrolled in remedial courses, not between 3,800 and 3,900 like the story stated. Also, it read the number of students enrolled in English remedial courses has ...

Steering new college students into remedial classes can boost a poorly prepared student's chances of success, but doesn't appear to benefit students with a stronger academic background, RTI ...

More students today are taking at least one year of remedial coursework upon reaching college than five years ago, according to a report from the National Center for Educational Statistics.

Remedial classes are required of college students who fail to meet academic standards set by placement testing. Although the courses are intended to help students prepare for college-level work, they ...

State colleges will be able to offer no-credit remedial courses for another year if the institutions can prove they aren’t ready to implement public act 12-40, according to a proposed redraft of the ...

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 ...

California State University officials vowed in 2014 to more than double the system’s four-year graduation rate by 2025, but their own policies for bringing students up to college-level speed were ...

Chicago Public Schools students who used online courses to make up for failed math classes fared worse than those who took traditional remedial courses during summer school, according to new research ...

Annual cost of college-level remedial help%3A %247 billion Graduation rates lower for those who take a developmental course 60%25 of community college students take at least one remedial course After ...

Remedial math and English classes were designed to help students prepare for college-level courses, but research has shown that they actually made it harder for students to finish college. Students ...

Fed up with long rosters of college freshmen who can’t handle college-level courses, states are increasingly turning to 12th grade transition classes to build academic muscle to help students skip the ...