Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

More students, especially black and Latino students, are benefiting from the elimination of remedial classes in California’s community colleges, according to a new report. An analysis released today ...

A technology institute in Kirkland is trying a new method of college placement that allows students to decide what math or English they should be taking. The program is called “guided self-placement,” ...

At City College of San Francisco, one of the country’s largest public universities, thousands of struggling students pour into remedial English and math classes and then the vast majority disappear, ...

Recognizing that too many students were leaving college before successfully finishing their degrees, College of the Redwoods has radically transformed both the placement process and curriculum in math ...

In the summer of 2017, 2,752 freshmen were dropped from the rolls in the 23-campus California State University system because they hadn't passed their remedial math and English classes their first ...

Earlier this year, we reported a pretty dismal statistic: in the summer of 2017, more than 2,700 freshmen were dropped from the rolls in the 23-campus California State University system because they ...

Community colleges across California have made significant progress in increasing access to classes that award transferable credits to students, but dozens of colleges are still offering many ...

It just didn’t add up. A top city middle school has backtracked on plans to get rid of accelerated math courses after a ferocious parental outcry this week. Lab Middle School for Collaborative studies ...