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.

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

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.

For young English-language learners, language skills can be a barrier not just to reading but math as well. Educators and researchers working in two school districts here hope that helping ...

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.

Tafona Ervin, executive director of the foundation behind Graduate Tacoma, worries that the lack of emphasis on math and English could become a way to push students to graduation without solid ...

AB 705 says students should begin in classes where they have the best chance of completing transferable math and English requirements. Statewide research shows that all students do worse when they ...

A new Texas law calls for every student who performs in the top 40% on a fifth-grade math assessment to be enrolled automatically in advanced math for sixth grade.

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 ...