Definition of "remediation" []

• The act or process of correcting a fault or deficiency: remediation of a learning disability. (noun)

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• "Yet in a SUNY at Albany study "researchers were able to reduce the number of children who require ongoing remediation from the national average of 30% down to about 2%!""
• ""From taxpayers 'standpoint, remediation is paying for the same education twice," Wise said."
• ""It is not within our mission to provide the kind of therapy or long-term remediation for long-term issues," said Caroline Scott, dean of college life at the Community College of Baltimore County."