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Sorted out: Remedial ed doesn’t prepare students
By Joanne Jacobs
Remedial courses usually fail to prepare students for college-level work, concludes a study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Remediation does not develop students’ skills sufficiently to increase their rates of college success,” concludes Judith Scott-Clayton, an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, who wrote the paper with graduate student Olga Rodriguez.
Still, the remedial track may have other uses: At open-access colleges, the remedial track can be a low-cost way of sorting unprepared students out of crowded college-level courses, the paper suggests …
Read more: communitycollegespotlight.org
Retention effort seeks out males
By Joanne Jacobs
High drop-out rates for male students have inspired the Community College of Denver to focus on helping men stay in school, reports the Denver Post. Fewer than 40 percent of students are men. Each year, one third to one half of male students leave without a credential.
Men are reluctant to seek help, said Ryan Ross, dean of students and retention.
“For some, there’s the pride factor, them saying, ‘I’m a man, I take care of my own and I’m not gonna ask anybody for… Continue reading
Posted in Persistence and Graduation
Tagged Community College of Denver, dropout, graduation, males, retention
