March 10, 2006

Businesses Have Remedies for Sale, but a Cure Is Not Guaranteed

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Companies have had mixed results in the sale of remedial education

From a numbers perspective, companies like Sylvan Learning Systems and Kaplan Inc. certainly looked like they were onto something in the late 1990s when they began venturing into the business of providing remedial education on college campuses.

After all, with more than 40 percent of all entering college students needing to take at least one remedial course in mathematics, reading, or writing, the market for a

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