Sentences with phrase «online credit recovery projects»

The Slate / Teacher Project collaboration produced another big series in May, focused on the issue of online credit recovery projects and the danger that they're turning into a 21st century version of old - fashioned diploma mills.

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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.»

Increased use of online credit recovery comes at a time school districts are under pressure by states and the federal government to raise graduation rates, hovering nationally around 70 %, according to the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center.

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.

A $ 15 million credit recovery program started in the fall that included online classes and staff interventions was credited with raising the projected rate to 74 percent by the end of the term, topping last year's rate of 72 percent, while California graduation rates also rose to a new high of 82 percent.

In a CBE system, students are provided with personalized learning opportunities that can include online and blended learning, dual enrollment and early college high schools, project - based and community - based learning, and credit recovery.