{"id":20506,"date":"2013-10-29T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20506"},"modified":"2013-10-30T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T19:07:16","slug":"how-hillsborough-community-college-is-advising-students-about-remedial-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/10\/29\/how-hillsborough-community-college-is-advising-students-about-remedial-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hillsborough Community College Is Advising Students About Remedial Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20507\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Students at Florida's community colleges can now skip remedial courses.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/10-29-CollegeGraduation.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20507\" alt=\"Students at Florida's community colleges can now skip remedial courses.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/10-29-CollegeGraduation-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/10-29-CollegeGraduation-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/10-29-CollegeGraduation.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Derek Bridges \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Florida&#39;s community colleges can now skip remedial courses.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most students at Florida&#8217;s community colleges <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/10\/28\/why-remedial-classes-are-no-longer-required-at-florida-colleges\/\">now have a choice<\/a> about whether they want to take the state&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/04\/13th-grade-explaining-the-postsecondary-education-readiness-test\/\">college placement test<\/a> and any remedial reading, writing and math courses they might require.<\/p>\n<p>The law takes effect this spring &#8212; and students are registering for classes right now.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, colleges have to check in with every new and returning student to find out if they&#8217;re exempt from remedial requirements. To find out <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/10\/28\/read-floridas-new-law-making-remedial-college-courses-voluntary\/\">who is exempt from the requirements, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough Community College has given its advisers a sort-of flow chart to run through with students. The outline asks new students for their high school transcripts and returning students for their college records and then proceeds from there.<\/p>\n<p>Does the student need to take the college placement exam? Should they?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Is the student exempt from remedial classes? Is it a good idea to take the remedial classes anyway?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the best choice for the student?<\/p>\n<p>Read the outline Hillsborough Community College advisers are using below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.41176470588235%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/811843-10-29-sb1720advisingguide.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"10-29 SB1720AdvisingGuide (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most students at Florida&#8217;s community colleges now have a choice about whether they want to take the state&#8217;s college placement test and any remedial reading, writing and math courses they might require. The law takes effect this spring &#8212; and students are registering for classes right now. As a result, colleges have to check in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":20507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[778,774,883,779,1160,884],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20510,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20506\/revisions\/20510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}