Quotes: Remediation's A Suburban Problem, Too

More than a half-million poorly prepared students — or about one in four — were required to take remedial courses in math, English or writing. Forty-five percent of them came from middle-, upper-middle- and high-income families... At private, nonprofit four-year schools, for example, students whose families were in the top 20 percent of income nationally actually took more remedial courses than students in the bottom 20 percent at the same colleges.

-- NYT editorial page (aka Brent Staples) in Guess Who’s Taking Remedial Classes