Inside Higher Ed – Ashley A. Smith
“Low success rates and high costs are driving more states and institutions to seek new ways to offer developmental or remedial college courses. Minnesota recently became the latest state in which legislators are making an effort to retain and boost completion rates among less academically prepared college students. They’re considering a proposal to give students who test into remediation the option to avoid taking a remedial class or to take a regular, credit-bearing course with tutoring or extra support — an approach known as “corequisite remediation.” “There’s no question there is a movement afoot across the country to implement corequisite remediation and to do it to scale,” said Bruce Vandal, vice president of Complete College America…But Vandal cautioned that his group isn’t recommending the elimination of remediation altogether or throwing students into the deep end to see them fail. “Research tells us it doesn’t have to be an either-or proposition,” he said.”(more)