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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.

Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the top, across a rocky landscape strewn with pedagogical barbed wire and ...

A scathing new report is questioning the effectiveness of remedial education in California’s 112 community colleges. The report, , commissioned by state community college chancellor’s Office, says ...

A federally financed study of Texas public-college students has found little evidence that remedial programs there improve underprepared students’ graduation chances or their performance in the labor ...

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Skelly Elementary School Principal Kristy Tatum says a new remedial program being used to help lagging readers throughout Tulsa Public Schools is improving more than just her students' reading skills.

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 ...

BALTIMORE — 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 ...

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