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Article: Raising the bar in developmental education.(remedial education)
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- Change
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Some have called it postsecondary education's "dirty little secret." Others are less subtle, arguing that students who cannot perform college-level work should pay for their own remedial education - or sue their high schools for failing to provide adequate preparation. Still others believe that remediation serves as the necessary remedy for helping the underprepared meet the challenges of postsecondary learning.
Contributing to these wildly varying opinions over the value of remedial or developmental education is the lack of systemic information. While campuses and policy-makers debate the utility and expense of these programs, too little is known about the ...