The Importance Of Accredited Online Schools
Accreditation is the process used by colleges and high schools to determine a minimum level of quality in an educational program. While it is a far from perfect process, it does at least give students a way to determine which programs would be acceptable to colleges. A high school diploma that does not come from an accredited program is often rejected as a basis for college admission.
In addition to the regional accreditors, there are specialized accreditors. The most well-known of these is the Distance Education and Training Council (www.detc.org). It is a national accreditor, and in one of the oddities of education in America, national accreditation is considered to a lesser form of accreditation. However, my money is on DETC making the leap to equal status with the regional accreditors, particular for high school accreditation.
Many colleges and universities will not accept high school diplomas from online and traditional high schools that are not accredited. If you start your high school education at one school and then want to transfer to another school, it is common for the unaccredited credits not to transfer. Yes, that could mean that you would need to take classes again that you had already taken.
There are thousands of universities, regular colleges, and online colleges providing accredited online programs in various disciplines. While choosing an online program, one has to bear in mind that accreditation is the criterion for the authenticity and credibility of a course. This prevents one from being cheated by fake programs and bogus institutions.
Another benefit of accredited home schools is that the school offers the child a chance to qualify for scholarships offered by the state for schools covered by the department of education, giving your child the chance to explore the unfamiliar, invent new approaches to understanding and connect their home school lives to the world at large. Accredited home school children enjoy a vibrant education and achieve futures unimagined.
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