California’s community colleges are leading the way with a historic reform to end a legacy of gatekeeping that has held back nearly all students, particularly students of color. Just 10 years ago, 85% ...

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 ...

How CUNY phased out all remedial courses Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat New York February 8, 2023 As a growing body of research questioned the effectiveness of the traditional remedial education ...

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 ...

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A new report released today by Complete College America (CCA) highlights the impressive success of an alternative to traditional remedial education being used by the University System of Georgia (USG) ...

For many college freshmen, school has just gotten a lot tougher. That’s because one-third of them will be taking remedial courses to learn subjects they should have mastered in high school, according ...

Key Takeaways ・UCSD has seen a dramatic increase in freshmen needing remedial math, rising from 1 in 100 to 1 in 8, ...

The Nevada System of Higher Education received a $750,000 grant to help with implementing programming that will replace traditional remedial classes for students. NSHE announced the grant from Los ...

The City University of New York system ended the last of its remedial math and English courses this fall, according to a press release sent last week. The classes have been replaced by corequisite ...

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on ...

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 ...