May 9, 2012
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Remediation: Higher ed’s expensive ‘bridge to nowhere’ costs taxpayers $100 million a year
More than a third of incoming college students in Michigan take high school-level classes on campus -- essentially repeating material they should have learned before they got their diplomas...An analysis conducted by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, estimated that remedial classes costs $3.6 billion a year nationally, with the cost in Michigan alone estimated at $114 million.
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May 9, 2012