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High Schools May Have To pay For Unprepared Graduates

| Jackie Mader | Posted 01.30.2013 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. Mississippi and Maine have become the latest in a series of states to question whether sch...

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Crisis At Miami Dade College

Posted 12.04.2012 | Miami
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By Sarah Gonzalez, Mc Nelly Torres and Lynn Waddell, Florida Center For Investigative Reporting Shakira Lockett was a pretty good student in elemen...

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GOP Gov: High Schools Should Pay For Graduates' Remedial College Classes

Posted 07.27.2012 | Home
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage thinks school districts should be responsible for their graduates' remedial courses in college. So in a plan to improve educ...

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On Early College High School and Community College Remediation

John Merrow | Posted 09.08.2012 | Home
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I just wanted to drop in and "blog" -- it's mostly a showcasing of videos, hence it being in quotes -- about two of our recent pieces for PBS NewsHou...

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Community Colleges Take Different Approach To Remediation

Posted 06.22.2012 | Home
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About 1.7 million students nationwide are enrolled in remedial courses at a cost of $3 billion to U.S. taxpayers. These developmental classes -- often...

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Unprepared College Freshmen Faced With Remedial Classes

Posted 06.18.2012 | Home
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High school graduates may be attending college in record numbers, but that doesn’t mean they are necessarily ready for higher education. Accordin...

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Experts Say Remedial College Classes Need Fixing

AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 07.29.2012 | College
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare the...

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