Archive for the ‘K-12’ Category

Virtual high school program underway

NORTON – Funding for John I. Burton High School’s participation in the Virtual High School program, about $10,000 for this school year, is all planned out, according to city schools Superintendent John Sessoms.Read the Full Story

Student teaching getting virtual

Starting in January, about 50 Culpeper County High School juniors and seniors and two teachers will get the chance to take part in a pilot program that makes courses available online through Virtual High School (VHS), an Internet cooperative based out of Massachusetts.Read the Full Story

Student teaching getting virtual

Starting in January, about 50 Culpeper County High School juniors and seniors and two teachers will get the chance to take part in a pilot program that makes courses available online through Virtual High School (VHS), an Internet cooperative based out of Massachusetts.Read the Full Story

Online Learning in High Schools Throughout the Country

MAYNARD, MA –- Virtual High School (http://www.govhs.org/), the pioneer of online learning for high school students and online course design for teachers, today announced that 29 high schools from California and Maine, to as far away as Columbia have joined their international online learning community.Read the Full Story

Online Learning in High Schools Throughout the Country

MAYNARD, MA –- Virtual High School (http://www.govhs.org/), the pioneer of online learning for high school students and online course design for teachers, today announced that 29 high schools from California and Maine, to as far away as Columbia have joined their international online learning community.Read the Full Story

More Ariz. students ‘attending’ virtual schools

This year, an unprecedented number of Arizona K-12 students will take their classes online through virtual schools.Read the Full Story

More Ariz. students ‘attending’ virtual schools

This year, an unprecedented number of Arizona K-12 students will take their classes online through virtual schools.Read the Full Story

Download the Report: Keeping Pace With K-12 Online Learning: A Review of State-Level Policy and Practive

In 2004, four leading education organizations joined together to publish Keeping Pace With K–12 Online Learning: A Snapshot of State-Level Policy and Practice. That report identified the growth of online education programs and discussed how online education practices are being developed in the absence of clear state-level guidance. It suggested that the window for proactively […]

T+L² 2005: A preview of limitless learning

Narrowing the achievement gap and harnessing the power of technology to help students succeed in an increasingly global workforce were the topics of choice as thousands of educators and technology directors descended on Denver Wednesday for the National School Boards Association’s T+L² conference.Read the Full Story

American high schoolers receive help from India

COCHIN, India (AP) — A few stars are still twinkling in the inky pre-dawn sky when Koyampurath Namitha arrives for work in a quiet suburb of this south Indian city. It’s barely 4:30 a.m. when she grabs a cup of coffee and joins more than two dozen colleagues, each settling into a cubicle with a […]