Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The percentage of high school graduates entering college classrooms who need more work on basic subjects like English and math, dipped slightly for the ...

The California State University system has decided to end its current remedial classes, but what will that mean for students and the value of a college degree? CSU Chancellor Timothy White issued an ...

Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state’s colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren’t college-ready get ...

The California State University system is ditching its remedial programs. Recent data have shown that requiring students with weak English and/or math skills to take noncredit remedial classes before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Medina struggled with remedial math in community college, but ultimately passed a college-level course with intense help from ...

The overwhelming culprit: math. For many colleges, the difference between the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 academic years wasn't much in terms of the percentage of students passing their remedial courses, ...

California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday a bill to further reform remedial education at California community colleges. The new law, Assembly Bill 1705, bolsters a 2017 law, which ...

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The California State University system has decided to end its current remedial classes, but what will that mean for students and the value of a college degree? CSU Chancellor Timothy White issued an ...