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 ...

Under pressure to raise graduation rates and better serve students at risk of falling behind or dropping out, a growing number of districts are turning to online courses as a means of helping them ...

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 ...

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 Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. The race to ...

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 ...

MIT is taking perhaps its biggest step yet to combine free online classes with its traditional on-campus instruction. The university announced Wednesday at its Solve conference that it will allow ...

Courses taken at other institutions are evaluated by Penn professors or committees within departments before Penn credit is awarded. Penn just released its register of hundreds of courses it will ...