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The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States that provides national accreditation to private post-secondary educational institutions. It is recognized by the United States Department of Education as an independent accrediting agency. [6]
The services include programmatic accreditation, i.e., a recognition by the NCAAA that an academic program has met the organization's quality assurance and academic accreditation standards. The assessment covers a range of academic programs, including those covering health sciences. [5] Accreditation and quality assurance criteria. Mission and ...
National Commission for the Accreditation of Special Education Services; National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education; National Council for Private School Accreditation; National Council of Academic Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions; National Independent Private Schools Association; National League for Nursing
In the United States, there is no federal government list of recognized accreditation agencies for primary and secondary schools like there is for higher education. [ citation needed ] Public schools must adhere to criteria set by the state governments, and there is wide variation among the individual states in the requirements applied to non ...
Cognia was formed as AdvancED in 2006 by the consolidation of the pre-college divisions of two of the U.S. regional accreditation organizations: the Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Council on Accreditation and School Improvement of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
In the United States, educational accreditation has long been established as a peer review process coordinated by accreditation commissions and member institutions. [citation needed] With the creation of the U.S. Department of Education and under the terms of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, the U.S. Secretary of Education is required by law to publish a list of nationally ...
The United States-based Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) (a non-governmental organization) maintains an international directory which "contains contact information about 467 quality assurance bodies, accreditation bodies and Ministries of Education in 175 countries. The quality assurance and accreditation bodies have been ...
In 1954, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) was founded as a non-profit, non-governmental accrediting body. In 1997, Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) was founded and dedicated to improving academic degree programs for professional educators, defined as those who teach and lead in schools pre-K through grade 12.