4/04/2014

Educators hope to slow the need for college remedial classes




Ricky Serna, vice-president for advancement at Northern New Mexico College, said a college can look all the way back to a student’s academic record in middle school.

Serna said he wonders how colleges can help students catch up when they are far behind. “How do we take them from seventh-grade reading and writing and math skills to grade-13 skills over the course of two semesters if it hasn’t been able to occur over the past four years [of high school]?

There are a lot of good ideas in this article. How does your school handle students who are just not ready for college level academic work and do you think it's effective?

What do you think would work?

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