Community colleges are mostly a mystery to education writers like me. Readers and editors rarely demand coverage of those two-year schools, even though they educate nearly half of U.S ...

This is a column about community colleges, but please don’t stop reading. Nearly half of U.S. undergraduates attend such places and are finding it difficult to get the courses they need. Maybe ...

Prompted by research questioning the reliability of placement tests, Long Beach City College is making some of its placement decisions based on students' high school grades, and not on standardized ...

College-placement tests can make or break a student’s career. Yet few students prepare for them, and there’s little evidence to suggest the tests even do what they’re designed to do.

The researchers determined that 72 percent of incoming community college students could be placed directly into college-level English courses by using high school transcript measures instead of their ...

Kurtinitis said one key effort had been helping students prep for the high-stakes placement tests, with pre-test workshops and practice exams. There are plenty of avenues for colleges to try to bulk ...

Two studies from the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, find many students are misplaced in remedial classes and suggest high school grades would be better ...

Practice, practice, practice before your scheduled Placement Test. If you have a physical or learning disability, contact Disability Services promptly to discuss whether or not you are eligible for ...

Long Beach is in the forefront of a movement in community colleges nationwide to reassess the use of placement tests for incoming students. The issue is especially acute in California, where about ...

A surge in Advanced Placement test scores after a change in how the College Board evaluates the exams has sparked accusations of grade inflation.. The College Board revealed this month that it ...

This year, taxpayers paid the nonprofit at least $90 million for A.P. tests that many students failed. By Dana Goldstein Dana Goldstein reported from a high school in Boston, and examined College ...