correspondence school
noun
: a school that teaches nonresident students by mailing them lessons and exercises which upon completion are returned to the school for grading
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Participation in the assessments varied among schools and students, with an especially low number of the state’s correspondence school students taking part, so education officials cautioned the results don’t represent all Alaska students.
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Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Meuser graduated from Oak Brook College of Law, an unaccredited Christian correspondence school that has an impressive bar exam passage rate.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
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Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Meuser graduated from Oak Brook College of Law, an unaccredited Christian correspondence school that has an impressive bar exam passage rate.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
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“Correspondence school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/correspondence%20school. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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