A new study shows that 1/3 of kids aren’t ready and that they need remedial classes to bring them up to speed.

In this intriguing article from USA Today, the author examines how colleges spend billions of dollars to get high school graduates up to a level they should already have reached.

“Christina Jeronimo was an “A” student in high school English, but was placed in a remedial course when she arrived at Long Beach City College in California. The course was valuable in some ways but frustrating and time-consuming. Now in her third year of community college, she’d hoped to transfer to UCLA by now.
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Simply dumping the remedial students into large classes isn’t necessarily expensive for colleges, although it’s also not very effective. But smaller classes typically require more attention and money. Some states have refused to fund remedial courses at the university level. In California, Oakley said, state funding for community colleges favors credit courses. Remediation (or “basic skills” as he and many educators call it) is typically noncredit.”

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