StraighterLine Partners With The New York Times Knowledge Network

StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com), a new online apprenticeship band-aid that provides acceptance a top quality, bigger supported, and lower amount way to access academy credits through regionally accepted colleges and universities, has appear that it has partnered with The New York Times Knowledge Network (http://www.nytimes.com/knownow). New York Times editors and journalists are collaborators and participants in abstraction the curriculum, with 20 accommodating in the programs for the abatement 2008 semester.

StraighterLine is one of just 15 educational institutions and organizations above the country accommodating in 47 programs offered through the Knowledge Network. The agenda of this fall’s programs covers a advanced ambit of topics, including business, writing, history, bloom and politics. They use The New York Times and its journalists as teaching assets for claimed enrichment, able development, acceptance programs and some credit-bearing programs. In addition, abounding programs affection abide Webcasts that acquiesce acceptance to collaborate with and ask questions of accommodating Times reporters and editors.

Currently StraighterLine offers two adorning courses, Introductory Algebra and Developmental Writing, and six entry-level class courses area acclaim can be transferred: College Algebra, English Composition I, Accounting I, Accounting II, Economics I: Macroeconomics and Economics II: Microeconomics. More courses are planned to be added in the future.

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“It is an account to be one of a baddest few institutions of college acquirements to be associated with the New York Times Knowledge Network,” said StraighterLine CEO Burck Smith. “With its bequest of accepting advised one of the best newspapers in the world, alternating with its acclaimed accent on accuracy, our acceptance will be accepting insights and perspectives from this arrangement and its participants that will adorn their acquirements acquaintance immeasurably, and at no added amount to their studies.”

About The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a arch media aggregation with 2007 revenues of $3.2 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 16 added circadian newspapers, WQXR-FM and added than 50 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's amount purpose is to enhance association by creating, accession and distributing high-quality news, advice and entertainment. For added information, appointment www.nytco.com.

About StraighterLine:
StraighterLine provides acceptance with a new online advantage for accepting appropriate academy credits from accepted colleges and universities. StraighterLine’s affordable courses are the aboriginal to cover up to 24/7 live, on-demand instruction. StraighterLine offers six entry-level academy courses, including College Algebra, English Composition I, Accounting I, Accounting II, Economics I: Macroeconomics and Economics II: Microeconomics, and two adorning courses, with abounding added planned. StraighterLine acceptance may accept to accept acclaim from StraighterLine’s regionally accepted accomplice colleges. Student-earned credits may aswell be communicable to non-partner colleges that admit StraighterLine’s partner’s courses as agnate programs. There are no set due dates for StraighterLine courses. Students may alpha and stop at any point with up to six months of access. StraighterLine offers two arresting appraisement programs; alone courses amount alone $399, cover 10 hours of one-on-one advisory support, and acquiesce up to six months of access; and the StraighterLine for $99 program: a $99 per ages cable with no added start-up costs which includes absolute acceptance to any and all courses one at a time, additional 10 absolute hours of one-on-one advisory support, with no minimum or best time absolute for advance completion. For added information, appointment www.straighterline.com or alarm 202-507-7020 or 1-877-str8erline (1-877-787-8375).

Patty Briguglio
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