Posts Tagged ‘remedial’
In Maine, Postsecondary Success Starts Before College
by Gov. Paul R. LePage
June 6, 2011
NEJHE presents exclusive articles by New England's governors on higher education in their states ...
Last spring, 83% of Maine public high school students who began high school four years earlier received a diploma.
About 65% of those graduates likely enrolled in some form of postsecondary education—at a public university, private institution, community college or elsewhere.
A 2008 ...
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Successful Developmental Math: “Review-Pretest-Retest” Model Helps Students Move Forward
by Richard Bisk, Mary Fowler and Eileen B. Perez
April 23, 2013
Much has been written about the failure of “developmental education” in mathematics. Failure has not been our experience at Worcester State University. In response to concerns about both the placement rate into developmental math courses and the failure rate in those courses, we made substantial changes in our placement program and in our course delivery. ...
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