Community colleges and nonselective universities that enroll everyone are at a crossroads. Helping less-prepared students make the jump to college-level work is a big part of their mission. In recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College of the Desert is a public community college in Palm Desert, Calif. Two years after California implemented a law requiring ...

This story was edited at 5:18 p.m. to clarify that remedial courses are considered non-credit when a student transfers to a four-year university. At least one-third of California’s community colleges ...

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