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Many Texas Grads Not Ready for College, Panel Says

AUSTIN Texas high school graduates enter college far less ready for the harder course load than other students do, according to new research. The study shows nearly half of the state’s college freshmen take remedial classes, which includes 63 percent of college-bound Hispanics who qualify for remedial programs.

November 27, 2007

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Many Texas Grads Not Ready for College, Panel Says

AUSTIN Texas high school graduates enter college far less ready for the harder course load than other students do, according to new research. The study shows nearly half of the state’s college freshmen take remedial classes, which includes 63 percent of college-bound Hispanics who qualify for remedial programs.

November 27, 2007

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Letters

A Proud Graduate As an alumnus of the Community College of the Air Force, I am very proud of the great milestone of 300,000 graduates (see “Establishing a Real-World Credential, June 28). I have visited several education centers during my career and found the staff knowledgeable, caring and dedicated to the mission of educating others. […]

August 22, 2007

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Report: CUNY to raise admissions standards for senior colleges

NEW YORK The City University of New York is going to make it tougher for students to get into its senior colleges.

July 27, 2007

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The new faces of college

Last year marked York College’s thirtieth anniversary. This spring, the college, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, passed yet another milestone. For the first time, it graduated more than 1,000 students, about 75 percent of whom were people of color.

July 12, 2007

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Closing doors and scary thoughts – City University of New York

The City University of New York has had a historical mission to provide higher education to immigrants, the poor, and minority Students. Its alumni include a distinguished roster of intellectuals like polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, who might not have had an accessible and affordable college education were it not for CUNY.

July 12, 2007

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New standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New York

The man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.

July 12, 2007

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The ill-prepared and the ill-informed – remedial education feud in New York

NEW YORK City Council members presented three community college students here with a special proclamation this month, congratulating them on winning a national chess championship.

July 11, 2007

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“This isn’t working!” New York’s mayor intends to take city’s community colleges out of the remediation business – Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani

New York In a starting pronouncement, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on the city’s six community colleges late last month to halt all remedial education.

July 11, 2007

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Robbing Peter to pay Paul – reauthorizing the higher education act

Reauthorizing the higher education act amid the new political reality means some programs may lose so that others might gain.

July 11, 2007

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Study should help defense of funding for remedial higher education – federal financial aid for remedial coursework

A new congressionally mandated study may blunt the efforts of critics who want to end federal financial aid to students in remedial education.

July 11, 2007

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Study: Almost Half of New Mexico High School Graduates Need Remedial Work

SANTA FE A study of public high school graduates enrolled in New Mexico colleges and universities in the 2005-06 school year found that nearly half of them took remedial courses.

July 8, 2007