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CUNY Phases Out Traditional Math, English Remedial Courses

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Students previously had to take semester-long remedial courses that didn't count toward their degree before they could enroll in credit-bearing classes if their placement exams showed a need for additional help with math or English, according to the release. That practice disproportionately affected low-income students of color.

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Formerly Incarcerated Man Earns Degree After Decades-Long Fight for Education Behind Bars

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He completed his last required course — Spanish II — at Hillsborough Community College before transferring his credits back to Miami Dade College, so he could graduate with his brothers, behind the walls of Everglades Correctional Institution in Miami. Still, Fordham said, the prison administrator didn't budge on the “rule.”

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Ten Examples of UT-Austin Transfer Apply Texas Essay A Statement of Purpose

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Philip’s College, a two-year institution, to pursue a Biomedical Engineering and Technology Associate’s. I kept recalling the summer of 2013 when I worked at an industrial lumber yard for eight hours daily in the blistering heat. College of Natural Sciences Nutrition Admit 3.87 Liberal Arts Geography 3.65