After researching how students are placed in remediation classes, I began to wonder how someone who already has a college degree would do on such a test. So I decided to take the Accuplacer. (Take ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there’s a sense that remedial courses are hurting the prospects ...

Improving remedial math won’t be easy. But a complex redesign from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is showing solid early returns. The foundation’s Community College Pathways ...

I am retired from the University of Montana, where I taught remedial math courses for 22 years. I recently watched the gubernatorial debate on TV. Over and over, from one candidate, I heard that 30 ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

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This piece isn’t about the fact that traditional remediation is a bottomless pit from which many students never escape (though it is a bottomless pit). And it isn’t about the fact that corequisite ...