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[quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous]While increasing graduation rates is generally a positive trend, I can’t help but wonder how much of this rise is tied to the online credit recovery program many MCPS students use to make up failed courses.

For those unfamiliar, Edmentum allows students to recover credits in a relatively short amount of time. In my experience, many students do the bare minimum to pass, and answer keys are widely available on third-party websites. Actually pretty surprised there hasn't been a ton of reporting on the program, it's such a hack. This raises the question: Are we truly ensuring students have mastered the material, or are we just pushing them through to graduation...?

Does anyone know if MCPS has data on how Edmentum has impacted graduation rates? From my perspective (MCPS high school teacher), it seems like a major factor in the increase, but I’d be curious to see if the district has examined this more closely (though I'm sure we all can guess, the fix is in). [/quote]

I agree with this. The way MCPS uses Edmentum is pretty shocking and should not be allowed. We have many students who never go to class and unfortunately have minimal educational skills (elementary school level). Our school has them sometimes do 7-8 courses on Edmentum to replace failed classes. The students do about an hour a day max with support for about 2 weeks and miraculously they get a full year’s credit for the class. And on their transcript, it shows up as the student having taken a full year of Biology or Chemistry or Spanish with no mention that it was a 2 week Edmentum online class rather than the actual in person school class that most students take. [/quote]

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