Remedial Education Too Common and Costly, Report Says

[rangerrebew]

Remedial Education Too Common and Costly, Report Says



A recently released report from the Center for American Progress has examined the remedial education system currently in place in the United States, calling it a “black hole” from which students are unlikely to pull themselves out of.

The report, “Remedial Education: The Cost of Catching Up,” states that millions of students enroll in college each year across the country and discover that they need to take remedial education courses.  Teaching students what they should have learned in high school, these courses do not count toward a degree program, but still come with a financial price tag.  Estimates suggest the courses are costing students and their families in all 50 states close to $1.3 billion each year.

The authors say that students who enroll in these courses are less likely to graduate.

http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/remedial-education-too-common-and-costly-report-says/

[Sanguine]

Remedial Education Too Common and Costly, Report Says



A recently released report from the Center for American Progress has examined the remedial education system currently in place in the United States, calling it a “black hole” from which students are unlikely to pull themselves out of.

The report, “Remedial Education: The Cost of Catching Up,” states that millions of students enroll in college each year across the country and discover that they need to take remedial education courses.  Teaching students what they should have learned in high school, these courses do not count toward a degree program, but still come with a financial price tag.  Estimates suggest the courses are costing students and their families in all 50 states close to $1.3 billion each year.

The authors say that students who enroll in these courses are less likely to graduate.

http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/remedial-education-too-common-and-costly-report-says/

Yes, but they're not less likely to graduate, but because they were not prepared in the first place.  There will be a few for whom the remedial classes will fill in some areas of knowledge that they didn't get in high school, like how to properly write a paper, but for most of them they are unprepared....well, because they didn't prepare.   Students who are able, and who are willing to work hard will almost always succeed.

[Bigun]

It is FAR more common and more costly than most imagine!  And trying to obtain the information to confirm that from the governing systems of our universities is quite a dangerous undertaking!