Editing Education in the United States (section)

====Remedial education in college====
Despite high school graduates formally qualifying for college, only 4% of two-year and four-year colleges do not have any students in noncredit [[Remedial education|remedial courses]]. Over 200 colleges place most of their first-year students in one or more remedial courses. Almost 40% of students in remedial courses fail to complete them. The cause cannot be excessively demanding college courses, since [[grade inflation]] has made those courses increasingly easy in recent decades.<ref>{{cite web |last=Butrymowicz |first=Sarah |date=30 January 2017 |title=Most colleges enroll many students who aren't prepared for higher education |url=https://hechingerreport.org/colleges-enroll-students-arent-prepared-higher-education/ |access-date=1 March 2019 |website=Hechinger Report |publisher=Teachers College at Columbia University |quote=A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn't guarantee that students are prepared for college courses.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Jaschik |first=Scott |date=29 March 2016 |title=Grade Inflation, Higher and Higher |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/29/survey-finds-grade-inflation-continues-rise-four-year-colleges-not-community-college |access-date=7 July 2016 |website=Inside Higher Ed}}</ref>