A Demand To Meet
There are several important factors behind the growing movement to enhance higher education’s focus on remedial education as part of its core mission, advocates say. They range from the changing demographics of the college population, including an increasingly older population returning to college with math skills that need updating, to a job market that today requires better trained employees in math, language and technical skills than was the case a generation ago. There are a lot more people in college these days who can’t do college work.
For sure, the need is there.
The American Association of Community Colleges estimates approximately 60 percent of students coming out of high school each year are not ready for college-level work. “The American Freshman: National Norms for 2008,” a widely respected survey of more than half a million entering freshmen, found 31.6 percent saying there was “a very good chance” they will “get tutoring help in specific courses.” The survey is conducted annually by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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