StraighterLine

Overview
Straighterline is an innovative player in the alternative adult education field. The company offers numerous online courses that effectively line up with a freshman year of college's general education requirements.

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Courses
The company primarily offers McGraw-Hill course content delivered via a Blackboardlearning management system, very similar to the delivery model used by many online colleges and universities. [2]  StraighterLine offers the students the ability to take any number of online college courses for $99 a month plus $39 a course, or ten courses (marketed as the equivalent of an entire freshman year) for $999.

StraighterLine offers 38 courses as of August, 2012 including: Introductory Algebra, College Algebra, Precalculus, Developmental Writing, English Composition I, English Composition II, Accounting I, Accounting II, Economics I, Economics II, Business Statistics, Business Communications, General Chemistry I, Introductory Biology for Non-Majors, Managerial Accounting, Anatomy and Physiology I, Anatomy and Physiology II, Intro. To Psychology, Medical Terminology, Intro. to Business, Western Civ I, Criminal Justice, Personal Finance, Intro to Nutrition, Pharmacology I, Pharmacology II, Intro to Sociology, Student Success, US History I, General Calculus I, General Calculus II, General Physics I, Business Ethics, and Organizational Behavior. [SL 2]

Recently the company announced strategic partnerships with the Educational Testing Service and the makers of the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as part of a plan to expand into offering validated tests from leading educational organizations.[3]