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Article: Reinventing remedial education: pushed to go beyond providing access, colleges refocus on developmental education to improve retention of at-risk students.(Essay)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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When Kafayat Olayinka graduated from Spingarn High School in Washington, D.C., with a 3.5 grade point average, she was certain those kinds of grades would help her zip right through her college years.
Sure enough, Olayinka received a letter of acceptance from the University of the District of Columbia, along with a request that she take a battery of tests given all freshmen. Soon, though, she realized something was wrong.
"I couldn't solve problems in basic math," Olayinka says, recalling the summer of 2007 when she took the placement exams. "I was surprised. I thought I was going to pass the tests."
Despite the ...