Despite taxpayers shouldering the cost of remedial courses at public universities, many students required to take such prep courses often leave school without a diploma. As the nation's colleges and ...

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Nearly 200 colleges and universities in six states have agreed to let students skip remedial coursework if they reach the college-readiness score on the 2015 Smarter Balanced assessment. Wednesday’s ...

Prior to course enrollment, virtually all community college students are required to sit for placement exams in reading and math. Based on these results, students are either deemed fit to begin ...

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on ...

And Frederick County students were less likely to require remedial coursework in math, reading and English than their peers in other Maryland colleges, the report found. While 12 percent of Maryland’s ...