This sequence assumes the entering student has adequate preparation in undergraduate Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics; therefore no physics remedial ...

Keith Schloeman was at a conference for community college math instructors five years ago when he first heard about corequisite courses. At the time the courses were still evolving as an approach to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The remedial courses became a critical first step — and often an insurmountable hurdle — for tens of thousands students seeking degrees each year. As a growing body of research questioned the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education data shows that fewer Oklahoma students have been taking remedial college courses. State Regents for Higher Education data shows that ...

The data, the first of its kind released by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, also revealed a chasm in college preparedness among schools within Shelby County. Some schools had more than 90 ...