Remedial Education for College Students May Be Expensive, but It's Important

To the Editor:

Banning remedial students and reducing the number of remedial students in higher education are two different goals ("Cal State Puts Remediation on an 'Or Else' Basis," August 4). I support efforts to accomplish the latter, and I reject any attempt at the former. In my long career in developmental education, I have seen hundreds of people who had been told they were not college material walk across the stage to receive their diploma, and walk out into the world to make

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