It's being called an economic crisis and a sign of a college education's importance in today's job market. But whatever its cause or consequences, this fact remains: Seven out of 10 high school ...

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

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A new report from ACT, the company that owns and administers its namesake standardized exam, found ...

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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 ...

Within four years of enrolling in community college, less than half of recent South King County high school graduates completed a two-year program or transferred to a university. For years, Washington ...

Judah Lindsey's college career started four weeks early and from his bedroom in his parents' house in Pontiac, rather than on the manicured Rochester Hills campus of Oakland University like he'd ...

Arguing that too many community college students are getting stuck in remedial classes, California lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would create stricter rules dictating when colleges are allowed ...

Instead, officials vowed to push students to take rigorous coursework in high school and take Algebra 2 early in high school. “We are going to do what we can to get them through higher math classes,” ...

As Oklahoma’s public schools brace for budget cuts before the close of the current academic year and anticipate further cuts next year, a substandard educational statistic has arisen over the state’s ...