Directory of Christian online schools including Christian Online High Schools
If you need legal information about how to homeschool in your state, your first stop should be the Home School Legal Defense Association. If someone is trying to stop you from homeschooling in your state, your stop should be the same.
Supporting the legal rights of homeschools is their job and they tend to do it quite well.
We don’t often recommend other websites, but Dr. Jason Baker has long had one of the very best websites for Christian online learning. If you are specifically interested in Christian schools, you will find his listings of K-12 schools, colleges, and seminaries of value.
Advantages Online Private School
Ashworth College / James Madison High School
CMA School of Arts and Sciences
Indiana University High School
International Virtual Learning Academy
Liberty University Online Academy
Provost Academy South Carolina
Smart Horizons Career Online High School
University of Miami Global Academy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Independent Study High School
As it happens, we own all 50 of the state online high schools sites. On those sites, we provide regular information about online high schools on a state level.
So how are they different from this site? Good question. Those are primarily news sources for what is happening with online high schools within that state.
Would you like to see those sites?
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
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.
If you would like to follow us on Twitter, we offer three possibilities:
http://www.twitter.com/onlinehigh
http://www.twitter.com/onlineschooljob
http://www.twitter.com/tcnixon
The first is a general information account. The second is for those looking for online school jobs. The third is for people wanting to learn more about online learning.
As I have mentioned previously, you should always choose a school that is recognized by employers and by colleges and other schools. One form of recognition is accreditation at the regional or national level. Unfortunately, just as there are fake online schools, so, too, are there fake accreditors. The following accreditors are the ones acceptable to Best Online High Schools and to most schools and employers:
AdvancED is actually a consolidation of the pre-college divisions of two regional accreditors (NCA and SACS). CITA was acquired by AdvancED in 2008.
DETC is a national accreditor. In one of the oddities of accreditation, often regional accreditation is viewed as a higher form of accreditation. True or not, it is a good idea to check with your college or employer of choice to see if DETC accreditation is acceptable.
So what does accreditation look like on websites. You will still see some sites that list CITA when they actually mean AdvancED. It’s not unusual to see the same with SACS or or NCA. Not to worry, though. At this time, all of those, in a sense, mean the same thing.
One additional note: the NWAC is the new name for the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools.
Importantly, if you are not sure about an accreditor, post a comment to this post and we are glad to help. It can be confusing.
I get many emails asking questions about online schools. I find it much better both for me and for our readers if those questions are shared.
So here’s your chance. What do you want to know?
All you have to do is ask your question as a comment to this post.
