Archive for the ‘K-12’ Category

‘High Tech High’ opens in LA

For Roberta Weintraub, the former LAUSD school board president and education activist, it was a dream four years in the making.Read the Full Story

School district signs on to EduNet24 portal

The program partners the school district once more with officials from the Kentucky Dataseam Initiative, a program that allows the school’s computers to be remotely accessed and used by university professors for research. Read the Full Story

Online high school expanding

“Beginning Dec. 13, we’re prepared to enroll students anytime from now through Feb. 28,” Rapid City Academy principal Deb Steele said.Read the Full Story

Classrooms at forefront of digital age

Instead, the sixth-grader takes notes and writes papers on the four-line screen of a rugged, portable wireless device equipped with an instant spelling checker.Read the Full Story

Virtual learning expands horizons for area students: Online courses are catching on at high schools

Virtual High School is a program that started within the last decade. Schools from around the world participate. Read the Full Story

Three dozen districts to offer distance learning

Thirty-five school districts are forming a statewide consortium that would allow students in one district to take classes taught in another over the Internet. Read the Full Story

Learning by remote, in a remote prairie town

Then she throws in enough technology to make it possible to teach nine high school classes at once, and she instructs students in a school 35 miles away over a two-way video system.Read the Full Story

Schools go online to identify cheaters

The site, where students submit their papers before they are graded, filters their work and instantly color codes text that has previously been published. Read the Full Story

Medway schools chief is high-tech booster

That’s the message from Superintendent Richard Grandmont, who last week wrapped up a series of public talks with teachers, School Committee members, and parents on how to improve the schools.Read the Full Story

Nine NH [New Hampshire] districts connect to Virtual High School

As an alternative, the school enrolled Cook in an on-line class with the Virtual High School. Read the Full Story