The overwhelming culprit: math. For many colleges, the difference between the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 academic years wasn't much in terms of the percentage of students passing their remedial courses, ...

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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 ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The percentage of high school graduates entering college classrooms who need more work on basic subjects like English and math, dipped slightly for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Medina struggled with remedial math in community college, but ultimately passed a college-level course with intense help from ...

More students, especially black and Latino students, are benefiting from the elimination of remedial classes in California’s community colleges, according to a new report. An analysis released by the ...

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to change the way students are placed in remedial courses at all 114 of California’s community colleges. The measure, called the Community College Placement ...

The California State University system has decided to end its current remedial classes, but what will that mean for students and the value of a college degree? CSU Chancellor Timothy White issued an ...

April 30, 2026 - Students at college campuses across California recover hundreds of pounds of unserved food from dining halls to serve to their hungry classmates. Four out of five California community ...

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 ...

AB 705 is a law passed in 2017 giving students the right to enroll directly in transfer-level classes without needing to take remedial courses first. In most cases, regardless of a counselor’s ...