Online Options for 'Credit Recovery' Widen
Districts turn to commercial providers and virtual schools to help students make it to graduation.
Under pressure to raise graduation rates, some high schools are turning to online courses to help faltering students revive their academic careers and retrieve the credits they need to earn their diplomas.
As alternatives to remedial lessons, summer school, and other traditional ways of getting struggling high school students back on track, technology-based options for credit recovery have been expanding.
“It’s a huge area of growth, especially in the last three years,” said Susan D. Patrick, the president and chief executive officer of the North American Council for Online Learning , a Vienna, Va.-based trade association for online schools. The group is preparing a white paper on “promising practices” in credit recovery that it plans...
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