StraighterLine 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Distance learning is a fairly new, but quickly growing, method earning your college education.  Obviously CLEP exams and DSST exams are some of the more typical routes for earning distance credit, but the college scene is changing rapidly and there are some new and exciting methods now available.  There are typically two walls…
Category: Distance Learning
ABOVE AND BEYOND DEGREE EQUALITY (PART TWO)
From part one of this series: ” My distance degree is not worth “just as much” as a traditional campus degree – it is worth more. Â It is worth years of work, life experience, and personal growth. Â Let’s go above degree equality, let’s go above and beyond the status-quo. Â If you are going to be…
Above and Beyond Degree Equality (part one)
Welcome to the fight for degree equality. Â See, the majority of students will attend regular universities with classrooms and hallways and fire drills, and they will never have to prove or justify their degree. Â The majority of students will attend a university familiar to them and the people around them, earn a degree, put…
Get Me Started… College Algebra CLEP
Ready to be done with high school algebra, once and for all? Â Ready to get those math credits under your belt and move on? Â Most high school students are prepared to take the College Algebra CLEP after finishing the high school level of Algebra 1 and 2. Â That means you could graduate from high…
The One State with Low Student Debt
There is only one state where the average college student has less that $20,000 of debt when they graduate. Â In all 50 United States, we can only find one state with this statistic and that award goes to the western state of New Mexico. Â Student debt is becoming a bigger and bigger issue in America….
What is the College Composition CLEP?
So just what is the College Composition CLEP?  In July of 2010 the College Comp CLEP replaced the English Composition CLEP with Essay. The College Composition CLEP contains 50 multiple choice questions to be answered in 50 minutes, and 2 mandatory essays to be written 70 minutes, for a grand total of 120 minutes…
The Drama of a CLEP Transcript Request
I had “request transcripts” on my to do list for Tuesday. Â It would be a very simple, straightforward task I was sure. Â I needed to contact three different places to collect the transcripts for all my testing of the last three years. Â And have them each send two transcripts: one to Liberty University and one…
Update and a Restart
Hello everyone, Where did my blogging drive go? Â I have no idea! Â Somewhere in between life and school and work I got too busy to keep up the blog. Â I kept writing (couldn’t stop that!), but it never made it onto the blog. Â But I have resolved to do better in 2015 and journal all…
One Book for 2015
The one book… Students ask me, parents ask me, everyone asks me. Â They all ask the same question. Â “What do I need to get started with CLEP exams?” There is no magic formula, there is no skill set you have to have. Â I have one, very simple book that I think is all you need…
3 Books for the American Government CLEP
In honor of November 4, 2014 – otherwise known as Election Day – let’s talk about the American Government CLEP. Â Are you about to go take the American Government CLEP? Â Well, you only need 3 books on your shelf, and you are ready to study! CLEP Official Study Guide – This book has one practice…