At 2-Year Colleges, Students Eager but Unready
by Diana Jean Schemo
As the new school year begins, the nation's 1,200 community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work. Though higher education is now a near-universal aspiration, researchers suggest that close to half the students who enter college need remedial courses.
The New York Times, 9/2/2006