Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

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Robert Gomez, 19, sophomore business major at CSUN, feels discouraged by the remedial, also known as supplemental instruction, work required for him. “I feel like quitting a lot of the time because ...

It doesn’t take long to compare the math course offerings at Santa Rosa Junior College this past spring and in the upcoming fall semester to see dramatic changes are underway. Several math classes ...

After UNLV sophomore Vince Briones failed his remedial math class for the third time, he faced a choice: Try once again in the fall or spend the summer in an intensive math course known as Math Bridge ...

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 ...

If Achieving the Dream has taught community colleges anything, it is that they must find better ways to move more students through remedial courses. Such courses are often tedious, and many students ...

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 ...

The Obama administration has thrown its weight behind a growing movement to fix remedial education —one of the main barriers between millions of students and college degrees. The U.S. Department of ...

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Wendy Pedroso has never liked math, but for most of elementary school and middle school, she got B's in the subject. It wasn't until ninth grade at Miami Southwest Senior High School, when Pedroso ...