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More students enroll in remedial classes
(CPS)--More and more college
freshmen are enrolling in
remedial courses designed to
teach them what they should
already know, according to a
new report by the U.S. Depart
ment of Education.
One out of every four enter
ing freshmen, for instance,
takes at least one remedial math
class, says the survey of over
500 colleges and universities
compiled by the department's
National Center for Education
Statistics.
More than one of every five
students also take remedial
writing courses, the study
shows, while 16 percent take
reading review courses.
"It's just a sign of the
times," laments Elaine El-
Khawas, vice-president for
policy analysis and research
with the American Council on
Education.
"It's a very disturbing reali
ty that so many students are not
adequately prepared for col
lege," she says, attributing the
problem to "a decade of loose
high school graduation stan
dards.—
And it's getting worse.
Among the 500 institutions
surveyed, nearly two-thirds of
fer more remedial courses now
than they did in 1978.
One-third of the schools of
fer the same number of
remedial courses as six years
ago, while only four percent
have cut the number of review
courses they provide.
The report suggests many
four-year colleges' plans to
shift remedial education to
junior and two-year colleges
have failed.
The University of California
System, for instance, two years
ago planned to redirect some
2,400 students to nearby corn
munity colleges by 1986.
Likewise, Ohio State began
admitting only freshmen who
had four years of English, three
years of math, science, social
science and foreign language,
and planned to send those not
qualified to two-year colleges.
"The reality is that, as good
as the policy sounds to shift
remedial courses to two-year
colleges, it simply has not
worked," El-Khawas observes.
"Students who want to get a
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are offering more remedial
courses, the majority of four
year colleges have increased
their remedial course offerings
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Public colleges have the
highest number of entering
students in so-called catch-up
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Addressing long-standing
concerns by some educators
that the nation's high schools
are not adequately preparing
students for college, the report
cautions the increased populari
ty in remedial courses could
also be linked to lower college
entrance requirements and
tougher courses in general.
Regardless of the problem's
cause, "it's far better that col
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