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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College of the Desert is a public community college in Palm Desert, Calif. Two years after California implemented a law requiring ...

Taking remedial courses can feel like a waste of money and time for any student who is interested in the cheapest and fastest path to a degree. But students who don't do well on placement exams may be ...

Developmental or remedial education forms a core service of community colleges, with a staggering 68% of all community college students taking at least one remedial course, most commonly English or ...

President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to mock Harvard University's international students, claiming they need ‘remedial math’ lessons and can't add 2+2. This comes after a district judge ...

Learning has been turned into summertime fun at Camp Ponkapoag, where the YMCA of Greater Boston and Boston Public Schools are giving kids from poor backgrounds remedial math, language arts and ...

If Achieving the Dream has taught community colleges anything, it is that they must find better ways to move more students through remedial courses. Such courses are often tedious, and many students ...

Beyond its building boom, perhaps the most notable developments at Jackson Community College this decade has been its push to make sure incoming students are ready to learn. As we saw last week, that ...