Community Colleges Get Creative with Remedial Education
Education Week – September 9, 2010
Record numbers of students are arriving on community college campuses this fall, but a majority of them—nearly 60 percent—aren’t academically prepared to handle the class work. Pushed by federal expectations, tightening budgets, expanding enrollments, and what the foundation-supported Strong American Schools campaign estimated to be a $2 billion-and-rising annual cost for remedial education, community colleges have started experimenting with a range of strategies to address those numbers.
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While this article helps to identify some new strategies for engaging students in dev ed., it focuses almost exclusively on traditional aged students. We must also address issues of non-traditional aged students.