http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/05/getting-teachers-into-hard-to-serve-schoolsand-truly-worthless-education-degrees.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:45:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/05/getting-teachers-into-hard-to-serve-schoolsand-truly-worthless-education-degrees.html/comment-page-1#comment-29601 College Graduate Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:49:52 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2004/05/getting-teachers-into-hard-to-serve-schoolsand-truly-worthless-education-degrees.html#comment-29601 Great quality proposals, since there are really big differences in the quality of online schools. However, I think that often online schools are likely to be described as "online diploma mills" even without looking at accreditation, teacher degrees etc. The reputation of decent online schools has suffered from those mills and to my point of view, only these "mills" need to be determined through a whole new set of quality standards and given the chance to either adapt to the standards or need to give up their business. Great quality proposals, since there are really big differences in the quality of online schools. However, I think that often online schools are likely to be described as “online diploma mills” even without looking at accreditation, teacher degrees etc. The reputation of decent online schools has suffered from those mills and to my point of view, only these “mills” need to be determined through a whole new set of quality standards and given the chance to either adapt to the standards or need to give up their business.

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