Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang recently reiterated the ban on remedial teaching that most heads of primary and secondary schools practice. Dr Kipsang observed that the eight school ...

A “bridge to nowhere,” a “bottomless pit,” a “thorn in the side of higher education.” If you’ve been keeping up with the movement to reform—and potentially eliminate—remedial college courses, it would ...

Denver — Almost every community college has a project to improve remedial education. But most colleges struggle with expanding those programs to any meaningful level — from, say, 100 students to 2,000 ...

Marjorie Blen, a first-generation college student, dropped out of Contra Costa College because she couldn’t get through what felt like a never-ending series of remedial courses. She says she was ...

California’s community colleges are leading the way with a historic reform to end a legacy of gatekeeping that has held back nearly all students, particularly students of color. Just 10 years ago, 85% ...

Arguing that too many community college students are getting stuck in remedial classes, California lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would create stricter rules dictating when colleges are allowed ...

A new report released today by Complete College America (CCA) highlights the impressive success of an alternative to traditional remedial education being used by the University System of Georgia (USG) ...

For years, community colleges in Michigan prided ourselves on attracting large numbers of people to our programs. These included students fresh out of high school but also significant numbers of ...

I tell my students that I didn’t start college until I was 31, but that’s only half true. In fact, I started when I was 17, dropped out before completing a semester, restarted at 20 and dropped out ...

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