LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A new Arkansas Department of Higher Education report shows slightly more public college students required a remedial course last school year than the previous one, but the number was about the same as two years ago, when colleges changed how they offered remediation.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the new state numbers show that about 35% of the Arkansas’ first-time, degree-seeking students took at least one remedial course, up from 31% in 2017.
A remedial course is required when a student is unprepared for traditional college courses.
Before 2016, the state counted all students who scored below a 19 on the ACT as remedial. Now they count only students who take a remedial course.
Jessie Walker, the department’s senior associate director, called the increase a “one-year blip.”
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