Remediation

New Ways Reformers Are Tackling College Readiness

AP | By LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 10.15.2011

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-- Trey Rasmussen excelled at hockey at his Martha's Vineyard high school. Academics, not so much. "I was planning on graduating and just jumping ri...

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Have A Good High School GPA And Prepared For College? Think Again

Posted 09.12.2011

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Over a third of Alabama high school graduates have been found unfit for college. According to the latest numbers collected by the Alabama Commissio...

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Unready and Unsuccessful

Joanne Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joanne Jacobs

Anyone can give college a try. But success is elusive for students with weak academic skills and poor work habits. Community colleges are struggling to solve problems created in the K-12 schools.

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Too Much Math?

Joanne Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stem, Math, Remediation, Community College, Education, Education Reform, College-Prep, Education News
Joanne Jacobs

Do remedial math classes teach essential, real-world, basic skills that students need no matter what future they pursue? Or could we limit math remediation by requiring less math knowledge?

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Internet Killed the Video Star

Claire Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Claire Gordon

The Wilderness Downtown is a revelation about how music videos, like so many other media forms, have not fully understood or adapted to the platform on which they're now viewed.

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Education in Chicago: Mr. Secretary: Quo Vadis?

Bill Sweetland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Firing of Teachers, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Jacques Barzun, Tougher Academic Standards, Teacher Firings, Remediation, Two-Year Colleges, Race to the Top, Education, Teacher Evaluations, School Reform, Teachers, American Schools, Schooling, Chicago News
Bill Sweetland

If Duncan and Obama really expect five million more students to graduate from two-year colleges, they must for the first time in history make our schools into thoroughly intellectualized, serious places.

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