One in four students have to enroll in remedial classes their first year of college, costing their families nearly $1.5 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by Education Reform Now, a ...

For example, students in remedial math were about half as likely to earn an associate degree in three years compared to their peers, according to data from the system. Since CUNY began transitioning ...

Remedial education has been the proverbial thorn in the side of higher education ... nearly 80 percent of first-time freshmen at CUNY community colleges needed remediation in at least one subject.

The number of college students taking at least one remedial course rose to 2.7 million in the 2011-2012 academic year from 1.04 million in 1999-2000, federal data show.

No question, remedial education needs an overhaul. Millions of young adults get trapped in rudimentary math and English classes that don't earn them college credits but still cost the same tuition ...

Top universities are being forced to give remedial lessons to maths students as A-levels and GCSEs have failed to prepare them for the rigours of degree courses, an official report has found.

A pilot program designed to help more than 8,000 failing grade-school children with their mathematics and English this summer was killed Tuesday by state budget cuts, Hillsborough school ...