According to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, roughly one in three college students take remedial coursework before progressing toward credit-bearing courses, a number that increases to ...

I asked educational remediation therapist and consultant, Lynne Merrill from Westlake Village, California, to enlighten us and help us understand the importance of this field. Karen Schiltz, Ph.D.: ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Three important caveats should be borne in mind when reading this chapter. First, the ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Having teachers create their own tests is one way to counter the backlash to “overtesting” and give teachers better data to improve instruction. Commercially prepared tests often fail to provide ...

This year millions of students entering college are being forced to take a remedial course in math or English - sometimes both - because they scored too low on standardized entrance or placement exams ...

In an effort to reduce the need for remedial education throughout the CSU, system administrators developed a college readiness evaluation program in conjunction with public high schools to help ...

This piece isn’t about the fact that traditional remediation is a bottomless pit from which many students never escape (though it is a bottomless pit). And it isn’t about the fact that corequisite ...

The system must be fixed to change the current situation in which students take on large debts they often can't repay, argues Arthur M. Hauptman. Over more than a half century, federal student aid ...