Sentences with phrase «about online credit recovery»

Francesca Berardi wrote «Take These Students, Please» about online credit recovery in Chicago.

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That is what online AP, credit recovery, and the like are all about.

Data about the credit - recovery industry are too incomplete, and change of all kinds too omnipresent in K — 12 education, to posit a definite link between the spread of online courses and increased graduation rates nationally.

Meanwhile, about 80 percent of urban schools cite credit recovery as an issue of importance, according to the International Association for K — 12 Online Learning.

With so little known about the efficacy of online credit - recovery courses, teachers and other onsite staff are in the best position to gauge quality and intervene when necessary.

With the exception of isolated pockets, like the Florida Virtual School (where funding of some online courses will soon be tied to passing an external exam), the conversation about accountability for online credit recovery has not been nearly as robust and far - reaching, in either a political or a pragmatic sense.

A significantly higher percentage of students in the traditionally structured algebra credit - recovery classes earned a grade of C or higher (44 percent) than in the online classes (about 30 percent).

Ever since LA Unified vaulted from a looming graduation crisis to potentially breaking its graduation record last school year after implementing a wide - scale online credit recovery program, questions have been raised about how much students are actually learning.

Jason Neiffer of the Montana Digital Academy writes about new research from REL Northwest that confirms what he's long believed to be a key element for student success in online credit recovery programs.

Also via The Teacher Project, Slate has launched an eight - part series, called «The Big Shorcut,» about how online credit recovery «is turning more and more U.S. high schools into diploma mills.»

Learn more about the new study from REL Northwest, Online Credit Recovery: Enrollment and Passing Patterns in Montana Digital Academy Courses.

No, I think they should look at it,» Zimmer said when asked about reports that the University of California system is reviewing online credit recovery courses to see if they will be accepted for admittance into its colleges.

After LA Unified skyrocketed from a projected 49 percent graduation rate last fall to a record - setting 75 percent for the 2015 - 16 school year, academic experts, California public universities, editorial boards and even the school board president are all asking hard questions about one major aspect of the turnaround — online credit recovery.

Concerns about another kind of anywhere, anytime learning — online courses — were highlighted in a recent Slate expose about the low quality of credit recovery courses offered by some online providers.38 To address such concerns, states might look to centrally managed course access initiatives, such as the Louisiana Supplemental Course Academy, which vets and approves online providers of courses that students may take for credit.39

Windsor High School, a 9th to 12th grade high school of about 1,500 students, has successfully implemented an online program to assist students» various needs, including credit recovery, after - school assistance, alternative education support, summer school and more.

The Hoyes Michalos Fresh Start Recovery Program enhances the mandatory credit counselling required when you file insolvency with additional tools, support and special online resources about budgeting, credit repair, dealing with creditor calls and much more.

About three weeks later, he was moved to the credit recovery program — where students often take online courses in a storefront building.