Edward Ervin knew within weeks of receiving his online high school "diploma" that something was wrong, but he never imagined that his months of hard work were in vain. The 27-year-old Jackson man, who ...

It’s time to head back to school for many students and the Better Business Bureau is warning consumers against online programs that offer fast and easy high school diplomas or college degrees. As ...

Cross-posted from the Marketplace K-12 blog. A federal court judge in Florida has temporarily closed a pair of organizations that the Federal Trade Commission alleges have operated as “diploma mills,” ...

SALISBURY — To give students flexibility en route to graduation, East Rowan High School hopes to start a virtual academy next year that would offer online-only diplomas. As part of Rowan-Salisbury ...

DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) - Inside a high-rise, just off Sherry Lane in University Park, the CBS 11 I-Team expected to find Roosevelt High School. The address on the online school's website, listed it as ...

So now it seems another industry has sprung up to meet demands. And exploit desperation. Florida Trend magazine recently investigated the rise of online correspondence and online high schools in the ...

Diploma mills are an old problem. The advent of the Internet has made it immeasurably easier to reach likely buyers, however, and also to close down old aliases and set up shop under new ones, the ...

Mississippi higher-education officials, alarmed that online diploma mills may be setting up shop in their state, have asked the Legislature to grant them more authority to shut down the phony ...

A Pakistani company accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from students through a global network of diploma mills has tentacles in San Francisco. For years, one of its phony universities ...

In September, the Federal Trade Commission shut down an online high school diploma mill that had been conferring degrees from various entities since 2006. The fraudulent diplomas required completion ...