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Excel High School
The Excel High Schoolis an, online private, for-profit high school located in the US state of Minnesota. It offers various high school diploma programmes in exchange for paid tuition, using a model similar more familiar among postsecondary institutions. It offers courses for both those under 18 and mature adults. Excel is not a "regionally accredited online high school". Advertising on Youtube leads with the question, "Do you need a high school diploma or [equivalency] GED fast?... graduate high school in just weeks or months."
Excel students are "athletes, performers, students who benefit from individualized instruction, students who prefer to accelerate, international students seeking an American high School diploma, part-time students, students who travel, Adult students returning to high school, home school and summer school students."
Excel is registered with the Florida State Department of Education.
The Excel High School web site is at http://www.excelhighschool.com/
References
- "A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning", iNACOL, October 2010, http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/national_report.pdf
- Excel High School web site, http://www.excelhighschool.com/
- "Keeping Pace With Online Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice", Evergreen Education Group, 2010, http://kpk12.com/reports/