Content Area Literacy Lessons Go High Tech
This account demonstrates the importance of content reading instruction as a means of providing teachers with tools that can help them help their students learn content material. Read the Full Story
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Schools form online education consortium
Starting this fall, access to online education will expand in Minnesota, due to the formation of a new consortium of school districts that have joined forces to offer interactive computer classes on subjects such as “Exploring Geometry†and “Advanced Chemistry.†Read the Full Story
Online school to open in Gypsum
After serving as the “technology coach” at Eagle Valley High School, Lindow has seen first hand how the classes that serve most students don’t suit everyone. Members of his student crew at the school could troubleshoot or repair just about any computer problem thrown at them. Read the Full Story
Online charter schools face new hurdle
MILWAUKIE — The race to open Oregon’s first online charter school hit a stumbling block recently when the state Department of Education questioned whether such schools are allowed under law.Read the Full Story
As trend grows, so do criticisms
But it has another existence. It lives in cyberspace, where it aims to thrive as part of a fast-growing — though criticized — segment of home-based education that permits pupils to learn online. Read the Full Story
Online school plans mentor, student meetings
The Idaho Leadership Academy will again provide on-site services in Mini-Cassia after a full year of being a completely online program, school officials say. Although the online charter school won’t have its own local campus and will still be virtually based, students will now be able to meet with mentors and one another once to […]
Online classes give summer school a twist
A new effort by Virtual High School, a nonprofit organization in Maynard, lets students make up failed courses or get a head start on the next school year by powering up their home computers and going on-line. Students log in to get their assignments.Read the Full Story
New public charter school
School officials are considering those unorthodox instructional methods and others in drawing up the curriculum for the Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy. Located in Dover and set to open in January with 40 freshmen, it will be the state’s first public arts-based charter school. Read the Full Story
‘Cyberschool’ trend increases
Such schools received more than $61 million in state and local money last year. A large Pennsylvania-based private provider plans to open in an Ohio border town this fall, and public school districts are increasing their online presences as a way to enhance educational offerings and keep more of the dollars tied to student enrollment. […]
District 286 renews contract with BlueSky
David Alley, a member of the school board of BlueSky, told District 286 boardmembers last week that he expects the school will break even this year.Read the Full Story
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