Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

A technology institute in Kirkland is trying a new method of college placement that allows students to decide what math or English they should be taking. The program is called “guided self-placement,” ...

More students, especially black and Latino students, are benefiting from the elimination of remedial classes in California’s community colleges, according to a new report. An analysis released today ...

Jody Nolf is an associate language and literacy specialist at Vista Higher Learning. For more than 20 years, she taught English and reading to middle and high school students. Six years ago, she ...

Congratulations! You’ve been accepted into college, you’re narrowing down your interests to select a major, and you might be starting to think about what classes you’ll take. At many colleges, you ...

At City College of San Francisco, one of the country’s largest public universities, thousands of struggling students pour into remedial English and math classes and then the vast majority disappear, ...

September 11, 2025 - An audit found the charter received millions in funding for which it was not eligible, assigned teachers to classes they were not credentialed to teach, and avoided standardized ...

In the summer of 2017, 2,752 freshmen were dropped from the rolls in the 23-campus California State University system because they hadn't passed their remedial math and English classes their first ...

Following introduction of applied math, the existing ‘Section C’, comprising calculus, linear regression and linear programming, has been removed from the maths syllabus, says the council Mathematics ...