Students in North Carolina and Virginia community colleges who started their fall semester have already knocked out credits for math and English and are moving onto their next classes. Both state ...

Fewer college students in Ohio's public universities need remedial classes, state officials say. (John Kuntz, cleveland.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Fewer college freshmen require remedial math or English ...

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 ...

The entrenched and costly system of remedial education in community colleges — pre-college courses that a staggering three out of every four students are forced to take — is quietly undergoing a ...

At Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, remedial enrollment was down and pass rates for math courses were up 9 percentage points. The university counted 675 students in remedial math in 2016-2017 ...

The number of incoming students requiring remedial instruction at CUNY’s seven community colleges plummeted by 22 percent after the public university relaxed its placement standards, new data obtained ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. A large number of California’s community ...

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The need for remedial math education at UC San Diego has soared over the last five years according to a report published this month by the university’s Senate Administration Workgroup on Admissions.

Mathematics continues to pose formidable challenges to college students of all ages and backgrounds. It remains vital that we use achievable and proven routes to prepare both new and nontraditional ...