New Company Hopes To Score Big With Online Advanced Placement Courses

By Andrew Trotter

Eric Delaney knew his first online course—an Advanced Placement U.S. government offering he took last fall—would be a new kind of experience for him.

But the senior, a top student at Marceline (Mo.) High School, didn't expect it would be so tough, and he was taken aback by the score on his first essay: 38 out of 50.

"That doesn't happen real often," Mr. Delaney, 18, recently said of the low mark, which put his perfect 4.0 grade...

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