Does anyone know an accredited institution (has authority to issue high school credits) that offer online high school courses?
Thanks a lot!!!
If I’m understanding your question correctly, Brigham Young University has online courses that are accepted for HS credit (not sure how many courses or how much credit you can transfer). Our son’s HS GC recommended that he take the “Health” course required by our state for graduation as a on-line course because she knew he’d be bored out of his mind sitting through the classroom version of it. It worked out well.
Stanford’s EPGY does.
http://epgy.stanford.edu/land/?gclid=CjwKEAjw876oBRCYr86w6KGfpkgSJAACIidwm6GQDyv5ZfrEUmznXhaZDmSopinH7SNCScYcwrz_ThoCz3Xw_wcB
Just about every state has at least one online high school program. If you are in high school in the US, start with your own guidance counselor. That person should know what is on offer where you are.
University of Missouri offers online hs classes.
Check your own state for free first, my kids district has a big offering of online courses, right through to AP classes.
D took golf through BYU’s HS courses for her PE.
Is it better to take 9th grade American history course (honors) in a more prestigious institution, such as a Ivy league school, or it does not really matter? D will take AP US AND WORLD HISTORY at school.
If the online course is not vigorous as the honor American history course in school, will it affect APUSH?
"Is it better to take 9th grade American history course (honors) in a more prestigious institution, such as a Ivy league school?
" ABSOLUTELY NOT if she can take an equally rigorous class, and learn the same materials at her own HS.
ANY online class that is not as rigorous as the class offered at her HS will NOT help her prepare for APUSH.
Why would you even consider having her take such a class if it is of lesser value?
Colleges offer HS classes to increase their profit margins, and the admissions offices do not think MORE of an online HS class taught remotely than of a class rigorously taught by HS teachers.
Unless the student is not challenged by classes taught at a local HS [ this can be the case with the highly gifted] or cannot attend HS, or has already taken the most challenging classes the HS offers, there is no reason to resort to online HS classes.
However, it can be up to the district whether they accept such credits for graduation and GPA. Our district does not accept any online courses unless they are through a CA community college or UC. (That’s reportedly because one of the high schools in the district was accepting most any online credit and giving honors weighting pretty freely. So, they disallowed them all a few years ago.)