Of the 45 students who started Roya Furmuly's online remedial algebra class, just over half stayed until the end. The instructor at Pierce College in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles County) dropped about ...

Mathematics continues to pose formidable challenges to college students of all ages and backgrounds. It remains vital that we use achievable and proven routes to prepare both new and nontraditional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a while, Miami Dade College student Jazmin Rojas thought about transferring to University of Phoenix, where she could get ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention across the state for success in teaching math. Not only are students at Cuyamaca ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...

Since Ohio State began enforcing competitive admissions, the amount of incoming freshmen enrolled in precollegiate classes has plunged. Each year, a percentage of incoming freshmen must take ...

Nearly two-thirds of 2004's graduating high school seniors now enrolled in Houston-area community colleges are taking remedial classes because they weren't prepared for college. Sixteen local school ...

Administrators at Maryland’s Calvert County Public Schools believed the math classes they added to their course catalog years ...

Of the 45 students who started Roya Furmuly’s online remedial algebra class, just over half stayed until the end. The instructor at Pierce College in Woodland Hills dropped about eight for attendance ...