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As K-12 school districts grapple with public demands for accountability that have resulted in assessment and accreditation tests such as Virginia’s Standards of Learning (SOL) and experience the heated debate over school choice, they are motivated to employ “out of the box†thinking to improve achievement without depleting financial resources.Read the Full Story
Better use of student data and more creative approaches to teaching and learning–including the judicious use of technology–were among the focal points as governors from more than 45 states and territories convened in Washington, D.C., this past weekend.Read the Full Story
The announcement, made during the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools, follows a drumbeat of recent reports on the steady decline of high school graduation rates and achievement in the past two decades.Read the Full Story
It was supported by grants to The Aspen Institute from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and to Jobs for the Future from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the W.F.Kellogg Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Bill […]
The Virtual High School is an Internet-based public school administered through the Georgia Department of Education.Read the Full Story
The program, which teaches students off-site by computer, started in 1999 and now boasts more than 600 students. Much of the recent growth came with the addition of about 165 kindergarten through sixth-grade students this year. Read the Full Story
The effort is part of a state campaign to make high schools more rigorous and increase the number of students who take advanced placement courses, either in the classroom, online or using video conferencing systems.Read the Full Story
The study of over 2600 online student enrollments found that online delivery of high school courses fulfills a very real and practical need in the high school curriculum, especially for students in small or rural high schools.Read the Full Story
The online academics are as rigorous and time-consuming as any standard high school electives, they said, but that doesn’t mean the Web courses are only for the studious. Finn and Ross are students at Lyme-Old Lyme High School.Read the Full Story
Each school contributes at least one teacher who teaches a VHS course online, typically in place of teaching a section of a regular course at the school. In the VHS model, the school also provides a site coordinator who handles administrative matters and supervises local students enrolled in VHS courses. The VHS teachers, with the […]
