Nearly two-thirds of 2004's graduating high school seniors now enrolled in Houston-area community colleges are taking remedial classes because they weren't prepared for college. Sixteen local school ...

T hey’ve tried compressing it, breaking it into bite-size chunks, computerizing it, even making it optional. But the traditional, prerequisite remedial course that generations of underprepared ...

Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state’s colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren’t college-ready get ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College of the Desert is a public community college in Palm Desert, Calif. Two years after California implemented a law requiring ...

The remedial courses became a critical first step — and often an insurmountable hurdle — for tens of thousands students seeking degrees each year. As a growing body of research questioned the ...

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