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Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

MONTGOMERY -- The Great Recession has sent thousands of Alabamians back to school to lay the groundwork for new careers, and many of them are finding they've lost their math skills in the intervening ...

Two years after California implemented a law requiring that community colleges "maximize" the chances that new students complete math and English coursework that can be transferred to a four-year ...

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As the White House moves to revoke Harvard University's certification to enroll foreign students -- escalating a battle between the administration and the oldest and wealthiest college in the U.S. -- ...

There is a crisis in our traditional remedial mathematics education. Many, likely most, math faculty members have already heard much about this crisis. But many faculty members outside math ...