Rethinking ‘Remedial’ Classes: Instead of Helping Students Catch Up, They Hold Them Back
December 18, 2018 |by Max Larkin
In an effort to help disadvantaged students through college, both public schools and state officials have identified what may seem an unlikely bogeyman: the courses designed to help struggling students prepare for college-level material.
Those catch-up courses — called “remedial” or “developmental” education — were set up with the best of intentions.
