Expansion of Virtual Learning Academy discussed
Superintendent Craig Closser requested the board use the Smartpro3 search system to determine the alignment between the learning academy and other state’s content standards.Read the Full Story
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7th-, 10th-graders take writing assessment online
At the Cabell County School Board meeting Tuesday night, the board reviewed the county’s assessment results.Read the Full Story
50 schools join NASA mission
NASA named 50 schools throughout the country on Tuesday for a program the space agency hopes will encourage students to study science, math and technology.Read the Full Story
Introducing the teacher to the web’s steep e-learning curve
Mr Keough, who decided in the mid-’90s that education and the internet were natural companions, started with web-based models for learning transactions. He went on to develop online training and education for Qantas through his company, TechWorks, which was first bought by Morgan & Banks, and then by TMP, owners of America’s largest online recruitment […]
NBHS [New Britain High School] to begin online courses
Roughly 30 students have signed up for a variety of classes as part of a program called Virtual High School. Funds through a grant from the national Advanced Placement office trained social studies teacher Heather Verdi to administer the program and math teacher Bill Stafford to teach AP Computer Science.Read the Full Story
Kihei Virtual High School Taps Cyberspace to Overcome Lack of Facilities
Based on that lesson, founders of Kihei High School, a charter school, skipped the bricks and mortar stage, finding a home initially in the Maui Youth Center and then in a Kihei industrial park. They will provide students a top-notch education through a partnership with Virtual High School.Read the Full Story
Schools to offer advanced courses
Kristine Cohn, a representative of the U.S. Department of Education, visited Madison High School on Friday to award the first installment of a $2.4 million grant to Project LEAP (Linking Education to Advanced Placement), a cooperative propgram among Madison, Alton, Cahokia, Brooklyn Lovejoy and Venice school districts.Read the Full Story
Virtual classroom at AHS [Andover High School]
Except these teens don’t have to cross borders – or get their hands dirty – to tackle the required lab experiment in advanced placement biology. With the click of a mouse, Virtual High School classes are enabling students in Andover and abroad to connect to courses that would otherwise be unavailable.Read the Full Story
Houston official: Virtual high not a fit for most
Enrollment in the state’s new online summer school began May 1 and ends May 25. Since Gov. Sonny Perdue only signed the bill into law Wednesday, many school systems are just beginning to work the program into their schools.Read the Full Story
South Dakota tops nation in school computers, but costs loom
There are 1.7 students for every computer in South Dakota, compared with a national average of 3.8. Also, two-thirds of the state’s schools offer distance learning – more than double the national rate.Read the Full Story
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