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02-22-2017, 04:59 AM
Penn Foster High School and some of the programs in the Penn Foster Career School are offered on a competency-based platform. Penn Foster plans to expand this technology to other programs soon.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/penn-foste...00789.html
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02-22-2017, 10:46 AM
sanantone Wrote:Penn Foster High School and some of the programs in the Penn Foster Career School are offered on a competency-based platform. Penn Foster plans to expand this technology to other programs soon.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/penn-foste...00789.html

Interesting - I actually just enrolled my 15 year old into the high school yesterday and this functionality isn't showing up yet.
Here Researching for my son, who has done the following:
Community College: Intro to Philosophy, Fundamentals of IT, English Comp 1
Saylor: Intro to Business, Principles of  Marketing, Corporate Communication
Shmoop: US History 2 (WGU won't accept this)
ALEKS: Int. Algebra, College Algebra
Study.com: Personal Finance, Principles of Finance, HR Management, Global Business, Advanced Operations Management
Straighterline: US History 2, Environmental Science, US History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, English Comp 2, Principles of Management, Business Law, Business Ethics, Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Accounting 1,Communication, Managerial Accounting, Statistics
Ed4Credit: Managing Information Systems
Sophia: Project Management
WGU: Bachelors in HR Management 

Second son is currently attending Penn Foster for his high school diploma, then on to Ashworth for An Associates in Criminal Justice
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