11.   As many as several thousand students will have to repeat a grade unless they complete a six-week remedial course starting in July.

12.   At many four-year institutions, by contrast, remedial courses are relegated to the sidelines and rotated among faculty or farmed out to part-timers.

13.   At the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts, one-third of the students taking remedial courses last fall were transfers.

14.   Boot camp is one of the proposals being discussed to help four-year colleges and the University of Massachusetts meet new state rules limiting enrollment in remedial courses.

15.   A factor driving the growth of remedial courses is the change in expectations about the place of college education.

16.   A. The best step would probably be to take away his crayons and enroll him in a remedial course in management.

17.   Across the country, about one-third of freshmen take remedial courses in college and three-quarters of all campuses, public and private, offer remediation.

18.   Bush also wants money to pay for the remedial courses for children who fail the state standardized test.

19.   But even under the Florida system, students do not always whiz through their remedial courses.

20.   But other administrators are exhausted by the futility of students indefinitely repeating remedial courses.