BALTIMORE — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only about a quarter of students nationally who ...

Judah Lindsey's college career started four weeks early and from his bedroom in his parents' house in Pontiac, rather than on the manicured Rochester Hills campus of Oakland University like he'd ...

Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the top, across a rocky landscape strewn with pedagogical barbed wire and ...

Remedial courses appear to improve poorly prepared college students’ odds of eventually completing a degree, two economists reported in a working paper distributed last week. The new study, which ...

For years, community colleges in Michigan prided ourselves on attracting large numbers of people to our programs. These included students fresh out of high school but also significant numbers of ...

BALTIMORE -- The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels' remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only about a quarter of students nationally who ...

If North Dakota and Minnesota public schools consistently rank as among the best in the nation, why do so many freshman students on state university campuses need remedial studies? It seems ...

The New Caney school district will offer summer programs this year. Programs include remedial programs for pupils in grades one-eight, a computer camp for enrichment, accelerated reading, bilingual ...

"In this program, we only cover what the students need," Ennels explained, pausing after chatting with students pounding away on computer keyboards. Nationally, it's estimated that more than a third ...

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