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Students of Online Schools Are Lagging
January 7, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
The number of students in virtual schools run by educational management organizations rose sharply last year, according to a new report being published Friday, and far fewer of them are proving proficient on standardized tests compared with their peers in other privately managed charter schools and in traditional public schools.
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The NYT Online Learning Smear Campaign
December 20, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
The existing public education system, practically devoid of choice for millions of American families, is the antithesis of what online learning has the potential to produce: an education tailor-made for the individual student.
Thankfully, changes in education financing (which include permitting dollars to follow children to the school of their choice) and rapidly advancing technology have made better educational options of a family’s choosing within reach. And many families have already made this choice.
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C-A seeks future savings
December 14, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
One possibility voiced by the board was adding foreign language options to the district’s current offerings of Spanish and French — for instance, offering students the chance to study Mandarin Chinese. That could be done either by sharing an instructor, or even offering distance learning opportunities over the computer, where teachers from other districts teach a “virtual” class.
Board member Maureen Hanse expressed some skepticism about sharing staff members.
“When CASDA came here to discuss this, they were talking about sharing people, but I don’t really think that would work,” Hanse said. “I do, however, like the idea of enhanced communication, like between school principals, so they can discuss ideas for how schools can improve.”
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