Put Through the Mill, Apples and Oranges, and Building a Future
Teacher Magazine ’s take on education news from around the Web, Nov. 25-Dec. 1.
Ah, the power of the pen: Every so often, it’s still evident. The story behind the latest example begins November 27, when the New York Times reported that a man once convicted of mail fraud had founded a correspondence school that helps failing teen athletes earn easy A’s and B’s for college admission . The unaccredited Miami-based University High School charges $399 for diplomas earned in four to six weeks, no classes or timed tests required. It claims to have six teachers on staff. But some of the 28 athletes who’d taken the courses over the past two years—raising their GPAs enough to get into sports-friendly colleges, including Division I football schools—remembered dealing solely with the school’s current owner, Michael Kinney, who was arrested on a marijuana possession charge two years ago and is wanted on a bench warrant. The school’s founder, Stanley Simmons, served time in prison in the late 1980s for his involvement with a college diploma mill in Arizona. Although the NCAA expressed concern over University High in the Times piece, its policy since 2000 has been to allow high school athletes to use correspondence schools—and to allow those same schools to determine the eligibility...
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