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 ...

February 12, 2026 - California's Assembly Bill 218 made it possible for childhood abuse victims to sue public agencies up to their 40th birthday or five years after discovering the abuse. This story ...

The City University of New York (CUNY) has phased out traditional remedial courses in math and English, replacing them with updated “corequisite” courses to serve students more equitably, the ...

More than one-third of Colorado students need remedial courses when they go to college. That costs students and the state a hefty chunk of change. According to a new report released by the Colorado ...

The California State University system plans to overhaul its remedial education system by 2018, scrapping no-credit courses in English and math and replacing them with credit classes that include ...

Cal State plans to drop placement exams in math and English as well as the noncredit remedial courses that more than 25,000 freshmen have been required to take each fall — a radical move away from the ...

Instead of remedial ed, MnSCU should offer co-requisites and other accelerated pathways Offer free traditional remediation to MnSCU students who need more intensive support I know from experience the ...

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 ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The move away from placing predominantly Latino and Black community college students in remedial college classes and instead enrolling them in regular classes is seeing substantial ...

Three years after 1,724 students sat for placement exam only 76 students earned an associate's degree Colleges fear standardized placement tests correlate more closely with race, class and income ...

Lurking beneath the good news on annual gains in college-going rates for black and Latinx students from Chicago is a literal black hole that likely will be the place where college and career ...

Marjorie Blen, a first-generation college student, dropped out of Contra Costa College because she couldn’t get through what felt like a never-ending series of remedial courses. She says she was ...