Nica Lampe, a freshman at Cal State Fullerton, didn’t know her math class this fall was part of a revolution throughout the California State University system. She was delighted, however, to reap the ...

After UNLV sophomore Vince Briones failed his remedial math class for the third time, he faced a choice: Try once again in the fall or spend the summer in an intensive math course known as Math Bridge ...

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Many students placed in remedial college math courses do not graduate. Ohio colleges are using co-requisite courses to improve math preparedness and completion rates. Co-requisite courses allow ...

It doesn’t take long to compare the math course offerings at Santa Rosa Junior College this past spring and in the upcoming fall semester to see dramatic changes are underway. Several math classes ...

This photo taken March 12, 2014, shows student Rahman Hassan holding a pencil as he works on an exercise in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College in Baltimore. Only about a ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

At Rutgers University-Newark, 20 college students were working through a word problem on a rainy February morning when several got stuck. This story also appeared in The Atlantic “I got 1/10 as the ...

Robert Gomez, 19, sophomore business major at CSUN, feels discouraged by the remedial, also known as supplemental instruction, work required for him. “I feel like quitting a lot of the time because ...

Nica Lampe, a freshman at Cal State Fullerton, didn’t know her math class this fall was part of a revolution throughout the California State University system. She was delighted, however, to reap the ...