Class sizes have increased this year because of an influx of beginner-level students who need to be pulled from general education English classes for language instruction.

Santa Rosa Junior College scraps math, English placement tests During 2017-18 school year, about 3,000 SRJC students were placed in remedial English classes, and 4,200 in remedial math classes.

Under the Common Core State Standards, math teachers whose students have varying levels of English comprehension are using innovative ways to teach them math, the vocabulary of math and to discuss how ...

A technology institute in Kirkland is trying a new method of college placement that allows students to decide what math or English they should be taking. The program is called “guided self ...

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...

Excerpted from “Teaching Math to English Learners” by Adrian Mendoza with Tina Beene. Published by Seidlitz Education, 2022. Embracing academic conversations in the math classroom becomes routine when ...

The new law, which takes effect this fall, aims to move more students out of remedial math and English classes.

Beginning fall 2018, all current and new CR students can enroll in college-level English and math without having to take any placement tests and without having to complete any remedial courses first.

A dispute over the length of remedial classes for English and math has sharply divided City College of San Francisco after a trustee proposed shortening the classes.

AB 705 shows promising results at California’s community colleges by cutting remedial-level English and math. Fresno-area students among most successful.

A new research study has found that students perform better in math classes held in the morning than those held in the afternoon. The Review of Economics and Statistics published Nolan Pope’s ...