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Taking remedial courses can feel like a waste of money and time for any student who is interested in the cheapest and fastest path to a degree. But students who don't do well on placement exams may be ...

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 ...

Developmental or remedial education forms a core service of community colleges, with a staggering 68% of all community college students taking at least one remedial course, most commonly English or ...

MONTGOMERY -- The Great Recession has sent thousands of Alabamians back to school to lay the groundwork for new careers, and many of them are finding they've lost their math skills in the intervening ...

Beyond its building boom, perhaps the most notable developments at Jackson Community College this decade has been its push to make sure incoming students are ready to learn. As we saw last week, that ...

Developmental education is the bane of community colleges. It costs institutions millions of dollars every year to educate students who come to their campuses unprepared for the rigors 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 ...