Virtual High Schools a Growing Trend
It is after-school hours at Norcross High School and a physical education class through Gwinnett County’s Gwinnett County Virtual High Schools program is in session. Read the Full Story
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No Child Left in the Cold
Who can name a pair of parallel planes?” asked teacher Kim Abolafia as she motioned toward a geometric shape labeled with an alphabet soup of letters.Read the Full Story
Online learning has schools nervous
“If I lose two kids, that’s $20,000 walking out the door,” said Dave Grosche, superintendent of the Edison 54JT School District.Read the Full Story
Big red dog gives scoop on interactive TV
That is the message Valley Public Television works with in its Ready to Learn program. Clifford the Big Red Dog and his friends visited students at Clinite Child Development Center, a Head Start program, on Tuesday to teach the children the value of reading. But his visit didn’t stop with the children. Read the Full […]
Polycom Sponsors the First K-12 Interactive Distance Learning Video Conference
INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 26, 2004–Polycom(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions for the education market, is serving as a platinum sponsor for the inaugural Keystone Conference, the first nationally accessible, K-12 interactive videoconferencing conference and event, on Oct. 25-26, 2004. Read the Full Story
U.S. High School Graduation Rates Continue To Fall Race Gaps Remain Large:
Boston, MA – A dramatic new study released Friday, October 15, concludes that high school graduation rates in the U.S. continue to decline and graduation rates for black and Hispanic students lag substantially behind those of white students.Published in the scholarly peer-reviewed journal Education Policy Analysis Archives (http://epaa.asu.edu/), the study, “High School Graduation Rates:Alternative Methods […]
Students rate teachers online
Instead, the Grimsley High School junior logged onto her computer and surfed over to http://www.ratemyteachers.com/. Read the Full Story
Student deserves ‘A’ for homework-ware
Adil Lalani, currently a first-year engineering student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, developed the web site, called SurfYourWork.com, for his grade eleven computer science independent study unit at Lower Canada College, a K-12 private school in Montreal.Read the Full Story
Schools online for internet
The project’s history goes back to July 2002, when the Education Ministry and Slovak Telecom signed a cooperation agreement to establish “e-Slovakia,” a programme to spread information technologies throughout the country. Both sides agreed to equip elementary and secondary schools with internet access before the end of 2004.Read the Full Story
Opinion: Cyber-schools
For some technology-savvy parents, there may be a way to get answers to these questions that doesn’t involve rustling through a child’s backpack or getting sucked into the verbal vacuum of an uncommunicative teenager.Read the Full Story
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