You may have heard this week that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced it would give $16.5 million in grants to 15 community colleges and five states (Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Texas and ...

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 ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A preliminary report about a City University of New York initiative that provides a semester of ...

It’s a statistic no educator—or student—would boast about: Half a million high school graduates, or about one in four, can’t perform math or write English well enough to avoid having to take remedial ...

In an effort to reduce the need for remedial education throughout the CSU, system administrators developed a college readiness evaluation program in conjunction with public high schools to help ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York’s community college students face long odds of graduating. Only 25 percent of community college students statewide—and just 22 percent in New York City—earn an associate’s degree in three ...

Tennessee’s unique approach to preparing students for college by requiring them to take remedial math classes in high schools instead of college doesn’t lead to improved math skills, according to a ...

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 ...

After years of tight finances, the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology plans to cease offering college degrees and to focus instead on a nondegree program in remedial education, the institute’s ...