Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Connecticut remedial courses

  • Colleges use a one size fits all approach, piling everyone below a placement exams cut-score into remedial courses, Boylan says. But [Connecticuts] proposed legislation simply replaces one size that is too tight with one that is too loose.
  • (US News and World Report)
  • Foxconn agreed to reduce working hours while protecting pay and benefits as remedial measures and the big one - of course the hours of work one - is due to be completed by July 2013.
  • (Reuters)
  • For example, she said two- or three-week remedial courses -- for those who have failed a test, or need help in preparing -- will have to be set up for July. That means hiring teachers to teach and do the testing, because most are off in July.
  • (News-Sun)
  • He ended the meeting saying Connecticut has long since passed the point where colleges or in one of our four state universities … has to take at least one remedial course, and in some cases multiple remedial courses.
  • (Patch)
  • Connecticut is at a fork in the road on education.
  • (Waterbury Republican-American)
  • 70 percent of all high school graduates in Connecticut going on to state universities or community colleges will need remedial classes in English and math because they will be ill-prepared to tackle college course work.
  • (Norwich Bulletin)
  • According to the Hartford Courant, Connecticut colleges may soon discontinue their remedial courses, which have been found to delay students from graduating.
  • (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

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