remedial

Pointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.

In his remedial English class, he wrote these comic essays that the teacher actually read aloud in class.

If their students need lots of remedial instruction, the school can extend the school day, the school week, or the school year.

And yet the hierarchy managed to maintain its assumptions and to overwhelm all remedial attempts.