Growing numbers of universities are being forced to give remedial maths lessons to students who gave up the subject at school, scientists have warned. The Royal Society of Chemistry claimed that ...

It's been a wild week for Harvard University, and not the kind that makes the alumni newsletter. At a recent press meet, US President Donald Trump took a swipe at Harvard students, mocking them for ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

I’ve heard classmates talk about “not being a math person,” but I’ve never thought of myself that way. I took four years of math in high school and passed all my classes with A’s and B’s. Yet, when I ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. Earlier this year, we reported a pretty dismal statistic: in the summer of 2017, more than 2,700 freshmen were ...

EAST LANSING - A class that doesn't count toward an undergraduate degree and covers material that students were supposed to have mastered in high school has thwarted more than 1,700 students at ...

Wendy Pedroso has never liked math, but for most of elementary school and middle school, she got B's in the subject. It wasn't until ninth grade at Miami Southwest Senior High School, when Pedroso ...

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If Achieving the Dream has taught community colleges anything, it is that they must find better ways to move more students through remedial courses. Such courses are often tedious, and many students ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Administrators and instructors at Austin Community College decided to go big when they tried a new approach to remedial math -- like 600 computer stations in the nation's largest ...