Louisiana is ending its use of college remedial courses in English and math, embracing instead a model that relies on corequsiite academic assistance in introductory courses. The Louisiana Board of ...

In 2017, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2223 mandating that all higher education institutions develop and implement corequisite courses for developmental education. According to the Dana ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of ...

Remedial courses appear to improve poorly prepared college students’ odds of eventually completing a degree, two economists reported in a working paper distributed in June. The new study, which draws ...

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Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state's colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren't college-ready get ...

A s more and more people take the view that traditional remediation is largely ineffective in helping unprepared students succeed at the college level, particularly in mathematics, an increasing ...