Imagine you’re 16. You’ve just passed your California driver’s test, and you’re lining up to get what you think will be your license. Instead, you’re presented with a form telling you that, though you ...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last week a bill that builds on a successful program at Cuyamaca College to move students directly into college-level math. Assembly Bill 705, authored by ...

San DiegoSan Diego — Tens of thousands of California community college students will be able to bypass remedial courses and possibly graduate earlier under a new law that calls for schools to follow ...

Reformers have scored legislative progress in their efforts to enroll many more California community college students in credit-bearing courses instead of remedial classes, with placements based on ...

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WARWICK, R.I. — Math Lab, which has existed since 1973 at what is now known as the Community College of Rhode Island, will end at all campuses six weeks after the first summer session starts. Math Lab ...

Cal State plans to drop placement exams in math and English as well as the noncredit remedial courses that more than 25,000 freshmen have been required to take each fall — a radical move away from the ...

There is a crisis in our traditional remedial mathematics education. Many, likely most, math faculty members have already heard much about this crisis. But many faculty members outside math ...

While graduation rates are on the rise in D.C. public high schools, many students who go on to college find that they face a significant academic deficit: They are forced to take remedial math. But ...

Rogelio Perez has long struggled with math. Had he entered California State University last year, his C grades and low standardized test scores would have steered him into a non-credit remedial math ...