This photo taken March 12, 2014, shows student Rahman Hassan holding a pencil as he works on an exercise in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College in Baltimore. Only about a ...

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 ...

Close to 337,000 public school students took the statewide test in October and the result “TELLS” the story: 32 percent were deficient in reading and mathematics, and are eligible for state-funded ...

Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the top, across a rocky landscape strewn with pedagogical barbed wire and ...

The Nazareth Area School District has embarked on voluntary review of its federally funded Chapter 1 remedial program to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the program. The project, which takes ...

A scathing new report is questioning the effectiveness of remedial education in California’s 112 community colleges. The report, , commissioned by state community college chancellor’s Office, says ...

Ismael Pena arrived at Kingsborough Community College last fall unable to write well enough to keep up with his classwork. After a few months in a highly touted program that is being copied around the ...

Connecticut’s General Assembly approved historic legislation this month that would essentially end remedial education as it currently exists in the state’s community colleges. Pending Gov. Dannel P.

A federally financed study of Texas public-college students has found little evidence that remedial programs there improve underprepared students’ graduation chances or their performance in the labor ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only about a quarter of students nationally ...