Developmental Education Report

Combining Remedial Coursework With Credit Classes Helps Students Succeed, Report Says

Developmental education is a dead end for the nearly two million students who enroll in remedial courses every year, says a report  released today by Complete College America. The report, “Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge to Nowhere,” says that less than one in 10 students enrolled at a community college graduate within three years, and just a little more than a third complete a bachelor’s degree in six years. However, the report says, the one-third to one-half of academically unprepared students could succeed in college-level courses if their remedial coursework were provided more as a “co-requisite” rather than a prerequisite to their full-credit classes. Access the report below.


Core Principles for Transforming Remeidal Education

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education December 18