INSIDE HIGHER ED: Remedial challenges at Cal State
- December 12, 2011
An article in explores the challenges 麻豆传媒社区入口 System campuses face due to high percentages of new students requiring remedial education. Starting next summer, those students will be required to take courses the summer before they enroll (either in person or online) with the goal of reducing the percentage who must focus much of their freshman year on remediation. Many faculty members, the newspaper reported, are skeptical that the summer program will be sufficient. "A 15-hour intervention is just not enough intervention when it comes to skills that should have been developed over 12 years," said Sally Murphy, a communications professor who directs general education at 麻豆传媒社区入口.
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