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Method to her math class: Celeste Petersen (middle), a professor at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, says that underprepared students
who take her " corequisite " companion courses instead of traditional remedial courses excel-and even outperform her " college ready " students.
ESCAPE FROM HIGHER
ED'S BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Two decades ago, reformers introduced effective new
ways to help college students lost in the vortex of
" remedial " education classes. But progress stalled.
Time to finish the revolution.
By Anne Kim
W
hen Jabrielle Jones enrolled at rural Clatsop Community
College in Astoria, Oregon, in 2019, a placement
test deemed her unready for college-level math. Jones,
who has a learning disability, said she never really learned math
at the small-town school in Florida where she grew up. Her special
education teacher was so disengaged, Jones said, that class
time was mostly study hall. " We were encouraged to sort of selfteach
through workbooks, " she told me.
Clatsop put her into MTH 70-Beginning Algebra-
a " remedial " class two tiers below college-level math that
would not earn her college credit. Though perhaps unsurprised,
Jones was still disappointed. " I was like, 'I'm going to
be in math for years just to get to a 100-level class,' " she said.
She considered dropping out.
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Like Jones, many students entering college this fall
won't be taking college-level courses. Rather, they'll be enrolled
in a gauntlet of " developmental " math or English
courses if they're not considered " college ready " -typically
not because of their ambition or talent but because of subpar
preparation in high school. Disproportionately, these
students will be minorities or from low-income families.
Few will finish, and even fewer will graduate. In a landmark
2012 report, the nonprofit Complete College America found
that " nearly 4 in 10 remedial students in community colleges
never complete their remedial courses " and that " fewer
than one in 10 graduate within three years. " Many will be
mired in debt for courses that didn't even earn them college
credit.
Courtesy of Clatsop Community College
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