Michael Horn explains how credit recovery programs became a scam market. Schools pushed students through courses to meet seat-time requirements, not to ensure they actually learned anything. By 2019, urban districts were using these programs to hit enrollment numbers rather than measure real knowledge.
system, even as those independent classes and like nowhere more so than credit recovery, right? Where, I mean, I don't know how many students, but at its peak around 2019, like tons and tons of students in urban districts are taking tons of online credit recovery courses. But because it's still based around seat time and not like what you've learned, it sort of becomes this synonymous with like a scam market, right? In some ways of like, just like sort of, well, throw them there, we'll accelerate them in 2 weeks, and maybe they learned, but like, we have no idea because the traditional system doesn't care about learning, and neither did credit recovery based on how it was implemented.
