Best in Online Schools

Get your school in the book!

I am in the final stages of creating the database that will be used for the second edition of our online high schools book. If you are an online school, high school or not, please send us an email for possible inclusion in this book or other books to be published in 2012.

New School: Advantages Online Private School

Advantages Online Private School is the answer for students living in the Net Generation. With accreditation, we offer comprehensive K-12 curriculum that is delivered 100% online, including Honors, Advanced Placement, High Tech Electives, World Language, and Credit Recovery. Students enjoy a self-paced schedule without mandatory log-in times while letting our teachers do the grading and assessing of work. We also have a full Academic Advisory staff that assists students and their families to meet their academic goals on schedule and to stay in tune with their progress.

For more information, check out this online private school here.

California online high schools now have website

If you are looking for online high schools in California, there is a brand-new website devoted solely to those schools. California Online High Schools lists schools and provides information on this very small but important niche within online high schools. Check it out!

Online high school articles available now!

I thought you might be interested in a series of articles that I am writing for Squidoo. Feel free to go over and have a look:

Best Online High Schools

Online High School Standards

Online High Schools on YouTube

Earn a High School Diploma Online

In addition to those four articles, I have four more coming up soon.

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Online high school offers virtual driver education

Just when I thought that I had heard everything, University of Missouri High School has begun offering driver education courses online.

I think that increasingly we are going to see courses offered online that go against what was once the norm. All it takes is a school like MU High School to see a need and fill it.

Note that this is not driver's training, commonly called behind-the-wheel. This is the classroom-based portion before you get to the car.

Found: One article, like new.

Occasionally, I will come across an article that I have written that I have forgotten that I have written. As it happens, last year I wrote an article for Next Step Magazine, the premier magazine for high school-into-college students.

There is what appears to be an excerpt here that I discovered by accident yesterday. Not surprisingly, it is about online high schools.

By the way, I received an email today from a friend asking if they only thing I did now was online high schools. While it might seem that I am writing about it quite a bit these days, I am also spending significant energy on how to earn a cheap college degree. And, as always, the whole distance learning thing.

Sometimes what drives some of this, though, are the vagaries of publishing schedules and website needs. Rest assured, I still plan to do all those things I do.

Get your diploma at a B&B?

I most assuredly am willing to accept most publicity for my book, Complete Guide to Online High Schools: Distance learning options for teens & adults, but this one takes the cake.

You do, of course, see the causal relationship between online high schools and bed & breakfast inns. :)

I do appreciate it, though.

Resource reminder

Since it has been a while since I have mentioned it here, I decided it is time to do it again. In addition to a couple of blogs, I also have two websites:

BestOnlineHighSchools.com is a directory of online high schools. In addition to the directory, it includes a blog and a forum, both of which I attempt to update regularly. I also put up articles on the topic.

CollegeAdvocates.com is a directory of various services and resources for pre-college and college students. In addition to that, I put up articles on college-related topics.

Laurel Springs School announces video contest

Laurel Springs School has announced a very cool new contest titled, appropriately, "Homeschool is Cool." There is even some cash involved. There are already some videos up, but it is definitely still a competitive event. You can read about it on both my other blog, in the articles section of BestOnlineHighSchools.com, and at the Laurel Springs website.

Go. Go now all your homeschooling folks!