Hall said approximately 50% of the student body were remedial students.

This year, the college will handle more than 2,000 remedial students, up from about 1,600 last summer.

Even though the remedial students pay their own way, the colleges have long struggled to balance their needs and those of other students.

Several lessons were also designed for older, remedial students and featured life skills, such as how to fill out a job application and time card.

Today, remedial students are routinely passed into the regular curriculum without adequate reading, writing and reasoning skills.

For Alexander's nine remedial English students, the battle slogs on.

More than one in four remedial students work on elementary and middle school arithmetic.

The academic curriculum included a preparatory year to teach elementary school subjects to remedial students.

And even more importantly, can we Humans, remedial students that we are, still learn from our own mistakes as well?

He said that when he gave them to his remedial students last year, their scores improved on the state's English test.