Interest in online credit-recovery courses continues to surge, prompting some policy experts and educators to consider whether traditional rules requiring students to spend a certain number of hours ...

Scenario: During his sophomore year, a high school student failed World History, a course required for graduation. Thankfully, he’s still in school. But without those World History credits, he won’t ...

Former teacher Lindalyn Kakadelis worries that nothing has demeaned the value of a high school diploma more than online credit recovery courses. For years, she’s complained that the classes, used ...

This article is part of the Big Shortcut, an eight-part series exploring the exponential rise in online learning for high school students who have failed traditional classes. An increasing number of ...

Teaching credit-recovery courses face-to-face doesn’t help students earn credits or graduate on time any better than teaching them online, according to a new study. Researchers examined credit ...

Some top-rated schools were among 36 that the Department of Education found bent the rules on “credit recovery” and online courses — potentially giving their students an undeserved leg up, The Post ...

Cobb County is one of a growing number of Georgia school districts placing students who failed classes on their first attempt in online classes, giving them a chance to make up the course credit. But ...

• The courses will be costly. Students outside schools in the consortium will likely pay about $4,200 to $5,600 a course, or about $1,400 per credit hour, a rate roughly in line with Washington ...

The race to capture a potentially vast market for college courses provided online has taken another big step with the announcement Thursday by 10 top universities that they’ll offer such classes for ...