Chapter 5: Positive and Negative Decimal Numbers Numbers in the Real World

Remedial Courses

Colleges are providing more remediation for their incoming freshmen, as indicated by the following chart.
 

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Remedial Education at Higher Education
Institutions in Fall 1995.

What is the percentage of college freshmen in a public two-year college enrolled in remedial reading?    In writing?    In mathematics?    In any of the three? 

What is the percentage of college freshmen in a public four-year college enrolled in remedial reading?    In writing?    In mathematics?    In any of the three? 

What is the percentage of college freshmen in a private two-year college enrolled in remedial reading?    In writing?    In mathematics?    In any of the three? 

What is the percentage of college freshmen in a public four-year college enrolled in remedial reading?    In writing?    In mathematics?    In any of the three? 

Which type of college has the greatest percentage?    Would you have expected it to have the highest? 
Why or why not?

Which type of college has the lowest percentage?    Would you have expected it to have the lowest? 
Why or why not?

How much more mathematics remediation was used at the public two-year college as opposed to the public four-year college? 

For more information on the condition of education, check out the NCES Web site.