Ashley Garcia scribbles away in her spiral-bound notebook, slowly filling it with numbers, functions and equations. It’s early on a lazy summer morning, but instead of sleeping in like many of her ...

Colleges routinely force students with weak math skills to take remedial classes before enrolling in one that yields credit, a requirement that poses one of the biggest hurdles for disadvantaged ...

Too many students are failing their remedial math classes, and those who succeed often have little use for the advanced algebra on which those classes focus. Acknowledging that, and hoping to ...

A session that underscored the use of data to help community college students succeed in STEM courses opened with a sobering set of statistics, depicting a population lacking basic math skills and the ...

Remedial course work has long been viewed as a primary barrier to college completion, a black hole from which relatively few students emerge to earn a credential after being placed in the typically ...

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ALBANY—The proportion of incoming freshmen in CUNY community colleges needing math remediation has grown significantly over the last several years, while the proportion needing help in reading and ...

Starting in the 2011-12 school year, Fayette County Public Schools will offer a college math prep class designed to help high school seniors avoid expensive, non-credit remedial classes when they ...

HAVERHILL — On a cool June morning, Lillian Santana is in a remedial math class, stuck on a problem about negative exponents. “I’m thinking you divide,” her classmate says. Santana isn’t sure. She ...

Unlike a lot of people her age, 20-year-old Kelsey Pearsall-Brandon of Lake in the Hills has a clear career goal. She wants to be a police officer. But something is standing in her way: -24 = 5x + 1 < ...

A recent article (“The End of the Remedial Course,” The Chronicle, February 18) and essay (“Replacing Remedial Courses? Be Careful,” The Chronicle, February 18) report some misconceptions about ...

Kansas high schools are piloting a yearlong math course that aims to save students time and money once they enter college. Too many students get to college and end up taking remedial math courses that ...