Remediation: Still a Mystery
A Pope Center review of remedial education in the UNC system reveals that no one knows if it is helping the students who take it.
Equalizing Outcomes Through Program Proliferation
Jan 18, 2010 ·
Jay Schalin
The UNC system hopes to improve graduation rates by expanding expensive “handholding” programs for students who are not ready for college-level work.
College isn’t ‘more important than ever,’ despite the Lumina Foundation study
Jan 11, 2002 ·
Jon Sanders
Despite the Lumina Foundation’s jeremiad over the “inaccessibility” of higher education hindering the goal of making college available to all citizens, other research indicates that such a goal itself is not socially optimal.
Racial Preferences, Grade Inflation Hurt Education, Students Say
Apr 20, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
While most students favor ethnic diversity on campus, they oppose compromising fairness and high standards to achieve it, according to new survey by Zogby International. The study, commissioned by the New York-based Foundation for Academic Standards and Tradition (FAST), interviewed 1,004 randomly selected college students nationwide.