If remedial classes don’t help college students succeed — and there’s lots of evidence for that — what’s the alternative? California...

The push to get more students to a college degree may be lowering the quality of a college education, writes Jon Marcus for the Hechinger...

Colleges are ripping off poorly prepared students, charges Walter Williams, a George Mason economics professor, in the Daily Signal....

So far, there are 28 comments on last week’s post about charges that community college placement tests are a “segregation machine”...

Community college placement tests create a “segregation machine,” pushing Latinos and blacks to dead-end remedial courses, a professor...

America’s high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, yet a high school diploma doesn’t signify college readiness, career...

My grandfather, who came to the U.S. as a boy round about 1900 — one of those huddled masses sailing past the Statue of Liberty — went to...

Starting in 2018, California State University will give students college credit for courses that include remediation, reports the Los...

Remedial math is the Bermuda triangle of community colleges. Many enter. Few go on to pass a college-level math class. City University of...

California State University, which recruits from the top third of California graduates, plans to stop using placement tests to decide...

California State University schools will stop placing unprepared students in remedial courses, reports EdSource. Instead, they’ll have a...

Community college remediation is doing more harm than good, argues the California Acceleration Project in a new report, Up to the...

Creating schools that “work for everybody” is a challenge, writes Education Week‘s Catherine Gewertz. When the bell rings at Wheaton...

Young people go to college to search for him/her/xe-self, explore, experiment, discover a passion . . . Or perhaps to retake algebra,...

Millions of Americans start college, but never finish a degree. Why not? Poor preparation and too many competing responsibilities,...

Eighty percent of new community college students in the City University of New York system test into remedial reading, writing and/or...