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Working Moms Get Ahead Using Online Education
The following top online universities offer flexible, quick and well-respected online degree programs for working moms. You can receive free information from each university regarding tuition cost, financial aid, course availability and graduation time by filling out their short “Request Info” forms: Kaplan University, University of Phoenix, AIU, Colorado Technical University. — DentalPlans.com, FL

Drexel Online Educator Presents Online Retention Strategies to Higher Education Leaders
Dr. Kenneth E. Hartman, academic director at Drexel University Online and resident of Cherry Hill, NJ, spoke by invitation to university administrators from around the country attending the National Dialog on Student Retention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. His remarks, entitled “Retaining Online Degree Students: Different Needs-Different Methods” were intended to help universities better retain online learners, which now represents more than 10 percent of the overall training and educational market. — PR Web

The rise of ‘virtual schools’ divides education world
Online and computerized learning programs appear to be leveling the playing field between rich and poor school districts and between rural and urban students. Supporters tout it as customized education, a way of making the world every student’s classroom by catering to individual learning styles and answering the needs of kids who march to the beat of a different drummer. — MinnPost.com, MN

Modernizing Continuing Education With Online Courses
Accredited online nursing courses are replacing traditional classroom-based courses, offering nurses a more convenient method for receiving credit, while providing flexibility in their credentialing options. — Earthtimes

SMARTHINKING Announces Beta Launch Of StraighterLine Program
SMARTHINKING, Inc. (www.smarthinking.com), an award-winning market leader in providing online tutoring and academic support to students, has formally announced the launch of its new online education division, StraighterLine. Launched on May 15, 2008, StraighterLine provides students a high quality, better supported, and lower cost online solution to obtaining college credits through regionally accredited colleges and universities. The new division will focus on the following entry-level curriculum courses: College Algebra, English Composition, Economics 101 and Accounting 101. — USPRwire

StraighterLine Announces Free Textbook Offer
StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com), a new online education solution that provides students a high quality, better supported, and lower cost way to obtain college credits through regionally accredited colleges and universities, has announced it will offer its textbooks for all of its courses free from May 15 through June 30, 2008. This offer provides all textbooks at no cost for each of the four courses it offers in its initial lineup: College Algebra, English Composition, Economics 101 and Accounting 101. More courses are planned in the future. — PR-CANADA.net