This issue of The Progress of Education Reform will address the following questions:

• What is credit recovery? What is proficiency-based credit?
• How is credit recovery different from traditional remediation?
• Why does providing for these options matter for high school completion?
• How widespread are these options across the states? And what do state policies look like?
• What are the challenges in implementing credit recovery and proficiency-based credit
  programs?
• What does the research say on the effectiveness of credit recovery and proficiency-based
  credit?
• What are the essential policy components?

(Jennifer Dounay Zinth, Education Commission of the States, June 2011)