EdWeek recently reported that at least three major school districts — Boston, Chicago and New York City —
offer online credit recovery classes.
Not exact matches
While individualized
online instruction has become prevalent in many high schools, it is mostly used as an add - on, to
offer special classes like foreign languages or
credit -
recovery courses.
And, even prior to
online options, alternative and «
credit recovery» programs were rife with the potential to
offer low - quality, watered - down expectations for learning.
This marks a similar trajectory to the path that early
online - learning programs took, by
offering courses in
credit recovery or Advanced Placement, where schools had limited or no
offerings.
Apex has expanded to
credit recovery by
offering online core classes as well.
Some entire states, like Florida and Georgia,
offer a range of
online courses, including
credit recovery, through state - funded virtual schools.
That's exactly the problem with
online credit recovery programs; the speed with which they
offer credit, said Liz Pape, president of the Virtual High School Global Consortium, which promotes effective
online learning and course design.
Offer rigorous
online courses for initial
credit and
credit recovery aligned to state standards developed and taught by Highly Qualified, SC - licensed teachers.
The students apparently used an access code normally assigned to a teacher to change their grades on work done on curriculum software called Edgenuity, which is an
online platform through which the school district
offers courses for
credit recovery and acceleration.
According to the report, the National Center for Education Statistics said 88 percent of school districts around the country
offered some form of
credit recovery courses to their students in school year 2009 - 10, and, «as
online and blended learning have grown significantly in the last five years, it is likely those numbers are significantly higher now.»
Our rigorous, standards - aligned digital content is fully flexible for use in any
online or blended learning model to support a personalized learning environment, from NCAA - approved virtual courses to honors and Advanced Placement
offerings to test preparation,
credit recovery, and intervention.
The
online credit recovery offered by the district, developed by a company named Edgenuity, allows students to retake classes they previously failed.
We
offer a full suite of
online core curriculum, AP ®, honors, elective, dual
credit, and concept and
credit recovery courses for middle and high school students.
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
We
offer over 20
online history courses including core courses,
credit recovery and AP.