Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College of the Desert is a public community college in Palm Desert, Calif. Two years after California implemented a law requiring ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets Until recently, most students at Cuyamaca College near San Diego had to take multiple English remedial classes before ...

In spring 2012, Atlantic Cape tried a new model that places eligible students in both a regular college English class and an ALP developmental class with the same professor. So far, 84 percent of ...

Melanie Perez wishes she could have played the saxophone. Octavio Reyes would have liked to take a computer science class. Both students at San Pedro High School say they can’t sign up for these ...

Only about half of the freshmen who entered California State University last fall can read and write proficiently, while just 63 percent are proficient in math, disappointed university officials ...

Despite taxpayers shouldering the cost of remedial courses at public universities, many students required to take such prep courses often leave school without a diploma. As the nation's colleges and ...