A “bridge to nowhere,” a “bottomless pit,” a “thorn in the side of higher education.” If you’ve been keeping up with the movement to reform—and potentially eliminate—remedial college courses, it would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Medina struggled with remedial math in community college, but ultimately passed a college-level course with intense help from ...

Denver — Almost every community college has a project to improve remedial education. But most colleges struggle with expanding those programs to any meaningful level — from, say, 100 students to 2,000 ...

I tell my students that I didn’t start college until I was 31, but that’s only half true. In fact, I started when I was 17, dropped out before completing a semester, restarted at 20 and dropped out ...

Increasing the number of students ready to transfer to four-year colleges has been a goal of California’s community college system since its inception over a century ago. The transfer curriculum is ...

The California Assembly unanimously passed new legislation on Wednesday to advance reforms to remedial education in the California Community Colleges system. The legislation, Assembly Bill 1705, ...

Subject: Race on Campus: Is Remedial Ed Holding Students of Color Back? Welcome to Race on Campus. Community colleges want more students to transfer to a four-year institution. They also want to close ...

A plan by Pima Community College to revamp remedial classes has stirred strong reaction from Tucson's K-12 education leaders. PCC leaders want to move the most underprepared students - those reading, ...

Remedial education at California’s community colleges is facing a death blow. Awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature is a bill that would mostly ban remedial math and English classes, which can’t ...