This Community College Is Testing An Alternative To Remedial Classes

Most community colleges would assign students like Yacuta to a remedial class, but he will avoid that fate at Long Beach. The two-year school is trying out a new system this fall that will place students who graduated from the city's high schools in courses based on their grades rather than their scores on the standardized placement tests. Long Beach is in the forefront of a movement in community colleges nationwide to reassess the use of placement tests for incoming students. Read more at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-college-remedial-20120625,0,6876733.story