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 ...

TIM ISBELL/SUN HERALDStudents watch Billy Collins reading some of his poetry in class at USM Gulf Park this month. TIM ISBELL SUN HERALD Catherine Tibbs' English class on the University of Southern ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only about a quarter of students nationally who ...

The California State University system is ditching its remedial programs. Recent data have shown that requiring students with weak English and/or math skills to take noncredit remedial classes before ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing With an eye to increasing graduation rates, the California State University is adopting far-reaching strategies to help ...

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EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets Until recently, most students at Cuyamaca College near San Diego had to take multiple English remedial classes before ...

I tell my students that I didn’t start college until I was 31, but that’s only half true. In fact, I started when I was 17, dropped out before completing a semester, restarted at 20 and dropped out ...