Remedial education in California's community colleges
is changing, and for Latino and African-American
students, that may be a good thing. CBS 8 media partner
inewsource ran some numbers and found those groups
of students are much more likely to be placed among
the lowest levels of remedial classes in college, and very
few get past them. Some educators say college placement
exams are partly to blame.
"To me, it just felt like a 'segregation machine,' and I think
we're phasing out use of it now and we've closed a
number of our equity gaps."
Colleges in San Diego County and around the country
are phasing out their reliance on these exams and
remedial courses. To see the results and to search
remedial pass rates of any California community college
by race, you can click on the hot button at cbs8.com
for a link to inewsource. This story is a collaboration of
inewsource and The Hechinger Report.
