Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken March 12, 2014, shows student Rahman Hassan holding a pencil as he works on an exercise in a remedial English ...

A preliminary report about a City University of New York initiative that provides a semester of intense remedial instruction before students enroll in a degree program determined this method may be ...

Academic programs that provide alternatives to traditional remedial education help students succeed at community colleges, but different programs result in a range of outcomes for various ...

Today, Melinda Gates announced a pledge of up to $110 million to improve remedial programs on community college campuses. Delivering a speech at the annual American Association of Community Colleges ...

Jamille Cunningham's primary learning tool in her remedial reading course at St. Petersburg College is a computer program. When Cunningham, 20, started the course, the program diagnosed her as weak in ...

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.

The small amount of research that has been undertaken on Reading Recovery does show a positive effect. But all teacher interventions show some positive effect, and it’s not enough to justify continued ...

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 who take ...

Academic programs that provide alternatives to traditional remedial education help students succeed at community colleges, but different programs result in a range of outcomes for various ...