The primary purpose was to determine if an advance organizer (AO) could establish a function concept as a subsumer for new concepts. An achievement test was used to identify students who had the ...

EdSource · How one student became a powerful voice for others with disabilities It has been 20 years since California State University took aim at remedial courses, seeking to eliminate (or ...

HAVERHILL — On a cool June morning, Lillian Santana is in a remedial math class, stuck on a problem about negative exponents. “I’m thinking you divide,” her classmate says. Santana isn’t sure. She ...

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, ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From a math instructor in the California State University system, after one of his ...

The story is a familiar one: A high-school dropout and single mother works the supermarket late shift. Motivated to earn a four-year degree so she can have a better life for herself and her 4-year-old ...

Colleges across Florida are getting a more accurate look at how changes in the state’s remedial law have affected students. Administrators are seeing that traditional students who decided not to take ...

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 ...

As the White House moves to revoke Harvard University's certification to enroll foreign students — escalating a battle between the administration and the oldest and wealthiest college in the U.S. — ...