More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

Colleges routinely force students with weak math skills to take remedial classes before enrolling in one that yields credit, a requirement that poses one of the biggest hurdles for disadvantaged ...

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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, ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

The percentage of Maryland high school students who took a college-preparatory curriculum, but still needed remedial help in math during their first year of college has risen steadily in the past ...

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. -- ...

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If this fall resembles past autumns, about half of the new students entering Texas's community colleges will have to repeat a high school class. Most of those will have to retake a math class—some ...

MONTGOMERY -- The Great Recession has sent thousands of Alabamians back to school to lay the groundwork for new careers, and many of them are finding they've lost their math skills in the intervening ...

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 ...