College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap

"More than four in 10 college students end up in developmental math and English classes at an annual cost of approximately $7 billion, and many of them have a worse chance of eventually graduating than if they went straight into college-level classes."

The remedial courses add a financial hardship since the  "remedial classes, also known as developmental classes, cost money but don’t count as credit toward a degree."

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