The Covid slide has both expanded the need for students to take remedial classes and produced greater familiarity with remote learning. As a result, online credit recovery options have become more necessary and readily accessible at the same time. But pre-Covid concerns that these courses don’t actually improve academic achievement persist. Now comes some timely research looking at the long-term labor market prospects of students who complete high school graduation requirements via online credit recovery. The results add more bad news to the pile.