Sentences with phrase «online credit recovery programs»

Sarah Carr took a close look at the growing world of online credit recovery programs for Education Next.

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.

Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe said the company began in 1999 by providing online advanced placement programs, but in 2005 it started providing online credit recovery programs, which have «really just taken off from there.»

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.

An Education Week chat explains how online credit recovery programs generally work.

Districts and schools that view online credit recovery programs primarily from an economic standpoint — that they are cheaper or less labor intensive — may be overlooking the adult support that is necessary for students to succeed.

But LA Unified is not alone in using online credit recovery programs despite their controversial nature.

«Despite the rising presence of online credit recovery programs, there exists scant evidence as to their effectiveness in increasing high school graduation rates, or their impact on other outcomes of interest,» notes Ly Le on the blog of the Albert Shanker Institute.

These are just a few of the setbacks students in online credit recovery programs might encounter before they...

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But it was also the first year the district implemented a wide - scale online credit recovery program, which along with some other traditional programs was part of a $ 15 million effort to help seniors graduate on time.

And states such as Missouri and Wisconsin have online credit recovery programs.

By spring, one of the starting five has transferred to an online credit recovery program inside Marshall.

Learn how one school district in Indiana reduced spending and increased its grad rate with an online credit recovery program.

But while online credit recovery has been making headlines in Los Angeles this year, LA Unified is far from the only district using it, and one of the nation's largest providers of online credit recovery programs has found a growing appetite for its product over the last 10 years.

LA Unified is wasting no time in getting students with poor or failing marks into its online credit recovery program at the start of the new school year.

The rigor of the online credit recovery programs came under scrutiny by LA Unified watchers as well as by those within the district, including the school board president.

Here are Zimmer's comments on the district's online credit recovery program, administered by companies including Edgenuity, which has been scrutinized for its rigor amid the district's recent announcement that its graduation has reached a record 75 percent even as the bar has been raised with the requirement that students pass the A through G, the course criteria established by UC faculty.

The MTDA works with schools to identify the additional resources students need to be successful in the online credit recovery program, the study said.

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.

In the past decade, online credit recovery programs have become an important strategy for helping struggling students get back on track for graduation.

While we offer traditional online learning courses that expand the course options available to many students in the state, we also provide an online credit recovery program open to all students who have previously failed a course and need to restore missing credits.

Since it was established five years ago, we have given much effort to the design and continuous refinements of the online credit recovery program based on student data and feedback from students, schools, and parents.

AW: Last year's series from the Teachers Project on online credit recovery programs was stellar — exemplary because it so thoroughly dealt with the range of issues that education technology should always prompt us to consider: who benefits?

Gipson also said the district had worked with California universities and colleges to make sure the online credit recovery programs are approved by them.

While district officials and some board members are saluting the credit recovery program, some academic scholars and institutions are skeptical of online credit recovery programs, saying they are an easy way to boost graduation rates without boosting student learning.

Petrilli pointed to a lack of outside studies of online credit recovery programs, and that most of the evidence of their effectiveness comes from the companies that make the programs.

The rigor of the online credit recovery programs came under scrutiny from LA Unified watchers as well as from those within the district, including the school board president.

In the online credit recovery program, students who failed or received a D in a course can take an accelerated online version of the course during free periods, after school, on Saturdays, at summer school or during vacation breaks.

Green Dot Public Schools, which manages nine high schools in Los Angeles and Inglewood, has online credit recovery programs but does not centrally track how many students are taking them.