1.   About one quarter of entering college students now take at least one remedial course.

2.   In his first year at City College he had taken nothing but remedial courses and the notoriously undemanding introductory black studies course.

3.   Some run efficient remedial courses, which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course.

4.   Their placement in a remedial course confirmed their suspicions.

5.   These students traverse course after remedial course, becoming increasingly turned off to writing, increasingly convinced that they are hopelessly inadequate.

6.   Almost all American colleges provide remedial courses.

7.   Although many public universities, like the University of California at Berkeley, set high admissions standards, most offer remedial courses, particularly in English and math.

8.   And no students from Boston Latin School or North Quincy High took remedial courses at UMass-Boston.

9.   And once admitted to a four-year, or senior, college, freshmen would not be able to take a remedial course more than twice.

10.   And once admitted to a four-year, or senior, college, students will not be able to take a remedial course more than twice.