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  • I heard through the grapevine that this professor thought Yale should accept only students from places like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton: "It's not our job to do remedial education, and too many of these other kids need it."  (source)
    remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education
  • The remedial reading program was going to lose its funding, and the principal would be either furious or just plain disgusted.  (source)
    remedial = to fix deficiency in
  • I couldn't help thinking about how he'd met Kotku in what was essentially Remedial Civics, the section for students who weren't smart enough (even in our extremely non-demanding school) to pass without extra help.  (source)
    Remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education
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  • Because of my weak spelling I was enrolled in an extra, remedial course, which was marginally insulting,  (source)
    remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education
  • They were all leaving the next day for seven weeks on the Seton Hall campus to participate in a remediation and preparation program required for all students accepted into the Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Plus program.  (source)
    remediation = the act of fixing a deficiency in education
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation. Remediation is often used in connection with education or the environment.
  • Eleanor would get put in remedial gym first.  (source)
    remedial = intended to fix a deficiency
  • Liberation theology, with its emphasis on the horrors of poverty and on redressing them in the here and now, its emphasis on service and remediation, seemed to fit the circumstances of Haiti.†  (source)
  • She was a horrible math student in fifth grade. She cried every Saturday when we did remedial stuff.  (source)
    remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education
  • She pulled out a remedial English test, and gave it to him.  (source)
    remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in
  • I once asked Mrs. Brown if the California boys could come into the schoolhouse and work with some of the kids on remedial reading.  (source)
  • Malfoy mouthed, 'Remedial Potions?' at Harry behind Snape's back before following him.†  (source)
  • I sat in the hall with my back against the wall and read my American history textbook (kind of remedial reading for me, to be honest) until Alaska showed up and sat down next to me.†  (source)
  • One fine morning at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, George and Harold had just gotten out of their fourth-grade remedial gym class when they saw a big sign in the hallway.†  (source)
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