We already have Khan Academy on the Internet. The one thing lacking with Khan are a private system of credentialing exams, so that the student can **prove** to others that he has mastered the material.”””
No matter what school you get your accounting degree or law degree from, you must show up in a central location for the Bar exam or the CPA exam each state adheres to.
There is no reason why final exams every semester done online could not also be done the same way.
IF you are not commuting 5-6 days a week to a ‘facility’ or paying to live in a dorm, you can afford to travel 2 times a year to take an exam at a central location & prove that you are ready to advance to the next classes.
We already have the Khan Academy but lack a system of certifiable examinations. If there were Sylvan Center testing, these tests could be taken any time. Once passed the child would **immediately **move from first grade arithmetic to second grade math. The third grader who mastered her history program would immediately move to the fourth grade level in history. The 16 year old who mastered college level Algebra would immediately move to Calculus I.
Having to wait 6 months to travel to take an exam in a fixed place would greatly delay the child or adult’s educational progress.
Why not have credentialing exams that were completely and totally unaffiliated with any university, college, or government or private K-12 school?
As a former employer and owner of a health clinic, I finally got to the point that I would only interview people with some community college or some university courses. Why? Because it was the only way I was somewhat certain that they were intelligent and literate enough to do the job. This was a job that any 8th grade graduate from my mother and father's day could have easily done!
If a person could have come into my office with passing grades on certifiable exams showing fundamental literacy and numeracy I would have hired them. I won't have cared if they never darkened the door of a institutional school or had any affiliation with a formal school.