Nearly two-thirds of recent high school graduates who enroll at the area’s community colleges need remedial classes to fill gaps in basic English, reading and math, according to data collected from ...

In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, countless news articles have bemoaned a crisis in math learning. Whether ...

UCSD has surpassed UC Berkeley in total signatures, with more than 350 faculty members backing the proposal to bring back the ...

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on ...

Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some, ...

States should re-examine the content of their standardized tests for high-school students so the examinations align more closely with the skills and knowledge that colleges expect freshmen to have ...

Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course ...

A growing number of community college systems, in California, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, New York City and elsewhere, have stopped requiring students to take remedial courses before they ...

Many college students struggle with math anxiety or test taking, which can make entry-level math courses even more challenging. Administrators at Moorpark College in California were interested in ...

As the regular application deadlines approach this month, getting into college is top of mind for many high school seniors. But students assume that if a college admits them, it means the school has ...