BTW, "teaching to the test" does cover all the material anyway. After all "the test" gets changed all the time, and that doesn't matter what test you are talking about.
Remedial courses are needed at the college level to make up for specific deficiencies ~ for instance there's the boy who played football ~ he wants to be an engineer. Now he needs to take those higher level math courses.
Girls are no problem. They got in all the AP courses anyway ~ they're better behaved eh.
You're kidding, right? If the need for remedial instruction were as limited as that, it could easily be taken care of with private tutoring. Instead, colleges have multiple class sections teaching their students what they should have learned in high school.
Cal State to Require Remedial Courses Before Freshman YearSource: CSU and remedial instructionMarch 18, 2010, 1:48 pm
California State University will require academically deficient students to take remedial mathematics and English classes before starting their freshman year, the San Jose Mercury News reported today. The policy, which will take effect in 2012, aims to reduce the amount of time students spend on noncredit remedial work once they arrive at college, a process that often lengthens their undergraduate years. Roughly 60 percent of Cal State’s new freshmen are judged deficient in English, math, or both.