These days it seems as if nearly everyone in college is receiving A's, making the Dean's List, or graduating with honors. What is more interesting is that college students in general are spending fewer hours studying, while taking more remedial courses and fewer courses in mathematics, history, English, and foreign languages. Students everywhere…

The paper describes an academic support program at Mercy College of Northwest Ohio. The Project Assuring Student Success (PASS) Program is multi-faceted and comprehensive, designed to help students find success in their academic endeavors. The first phase of this program was the development and implementation of the Student Success Center. Some of…

This research brief from Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) (Florida) addresses the retention rates of students enrolled in intervention courses. In July of 1998, an evaluation of the new SLS (College Survival Skills) intervention courses for college preparatory students indicated that students who successfully completed SLS had a significantly…

In 2001, a group of 25 national and regional leaders in the field of developmental education met in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the second Meeting on Future Directions in Developmental Education. The meeting was co-sponsored by General College (GC) and the Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy (CRDEUL) at the University…

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia examined the status of remediation in higher education in the state using a population of first-time college students who graduated from a high school in Virginia, attended a Virginia college, and took at least one remedial course at a community college or private college. Over the last 5 years,…

The focus on schoolwide reform that grew from the failure of traditional Title I programs to raise student achievement overlooks one of the few effective Title I programs, the private remedial education partnership. Since the early 1900s, some public schools have begun relying on private remedial education companies, such as Sylvan Learning…

This paper, which focuses on remediation at community colleges, is part of a series published by the Center for Community College Policy, designed to support state and local policymakers, as well as educational leaders who are interested in policy issues related to the two-year postsecondary sector. Providing academic support for remediation has…

This report responds to a request for information about the quality of the tests the City University of New York (CUNY) uses to decide who must take remedial courses and a profile of CUNY freshmen. Roughly 65% of CUNY bachelor's degree students and nearly 90% of associate degree students are required to take remedial courses in reading, writing,…

This remedial mathematics curriculum for deaf community college students is organized into 22 lessons grouped into three levels: whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Preliminary versions of the curriculum have been used in Deaf Prep classrooms and taken through a development and revision process. Each lesson follows the same pattern: topic…

This study examined the extent to which community colleges and technical schools are involved in remedial education and workforce training efforts as well as academic preparation activities; how state and federal funding support these academic and training efforts; and what is known about schools' efforts to measure outcomes, including the rates…

With the apparent success of progress monitoring measures for reading growth in grades K-3, there is broad interest in the State of Florida in extending this assessment technology into the upper grades (4-12) for students who continue to perform below grade level on the reading portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). The…

Describes the learning center at Mary Our Queen Elementary School in Omaha, which grew out of the need to compensate for overcrowded classrooms. (MB)

A project to help students make adequate adjustments to the social and emotional aspects of school was successful. (CK)

As many as one-third of our children, who are sometimes labeled nonretarded exceptionals," are being shunted off to special classrooms or if in a regular classroom are neglected and even ignored by the teacher. (Editor)

Findings of the study tend to support the contention that retention not only may be used as a remedial technique, but also may be used as a punishment for students who exhibit undesirable classroom behavior. (Author)