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 ...

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 ...

San Jacinto College developmental math professor Shannon Solis recently earned Developmental Education Specialist certification from the Kellogg Institute for the Training and Certification of ...

The purpose of this study was to examine student perceptions of the placement process used to place students in the first of three developmental mathematics courses at a southwestern community college ...

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 ...

While in his previous role as associate dean, Lafreniere became concerned about the number of students who were repeating developmental mathematics courses two or three times in an effort to move on ...

MATTOON — Lake Land College has replaced all developmental math courses with a ground-breaking math sequence design using co-requisite courses, becoming the first community college in Illinois to ...

Across community colleges in the United States, most students place into a developmental math course that they never pass. This can leave them without the math skills necessary to make informed ...

Mathematics — whatever your experience in school, you are likely to have developed a strong opinion. It’s quite possible you’ve been turned off for years; math tends to do that to some people. Now ...

The statewide developmental education reform efforts in Florida have increased the number of students taking and passing general education requirements in math and English, according to a study ...