About 20% of Georgia college students enroll in some kind of remedial education class. But new rules that will take effect this fall are designed to reduce that number. Remedial education classes are offered in three core areas—math, reading, and English. Under the new rules, students can qualify for remediation in one or two areas and still attend college. But they won’t be able to attend if they qualify in all three.
Lynne Weisenbach is the University System of Georgia’s Vice Chancellor for educational access and success. She says the change isn’t meant to be punitive.
“The success rate of those students was really not good, in the 4 and 5% range,” she says, “So that was really a level of us being upfront with students about the chances of success.”
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