MATTOON, Ill. (WCIA) — Lake Land College in Mattoon is doing things differently this year, as they get ready to help students reach their goals and graduate. They’re the first community college in ...

MUSKEGON — An experiment is unfolding inside J.B. Meeuwenberg's classroom at Muskegon Community College — and the result could drive how the college teaches developmental math for years to come.

Math is a stumbling block for many community college students. Often, they arrive on campus unprepared for college-level work, get placed in developmental classes, and never really progress. Promising ...

An experiment to remap developmental math in four Texas community colleges resulted in a higher pass rate and a larger number of developmental math credits earned by the students who participated. The ...

Texas’ largest public universities have seen an increase in the numbers of students enrolling in developmental English and math courses designed to prepare students for college-level classes in the ...

Too many students are failing their remedial math classes, and those who succeed often have little use for the advanced algebra on which those classes focus. Acknowledging that, and hoping to ...

Developmental courses that use technology to let students move at their own pace may hurt students in the long run, according to a working paper from the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary ...

December 11, 2025 - A tiny school district in rural Merced County has invested heavily in school counseling. And UCLA researchers have recognized the results. Most students entering California’s ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study examined whether a correlation was present between demographic variables and academic success at a two-year institution in Alabama.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of writing on performance in a college developmental mathematics class. Two groups of randomly assigned students were compared to test the ...