Basmat Parsad, Laurie Lewis, and Bernard Greene, National Center for Education Statistics
November 2003
This report from the National Center for Education Statistics compares "the prevalence and characteristics" of remedial courses and enrollment in 2- and 4-year colleges and universities in 1995 and 2000. Overall, the percent of institutions offering remedial courses did not significantly change nor did the proportion of entering students who enrolled in such courses (28 percent in both 1995 and 2000). Not surprisingly, the study found that public 2- and 4-year institutions are much more likely than their private counterparts to offer remedial courses, and that students in public 2-year institutions (i.e. community colleges) are likelier to take such courses for longer than students in any other institution. A humdrum report but you may want the data. Surf to http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/2004010.pdf.
