Archive for the ‘K-12’ Category

District to launch virtual high school in fall 2005

The school district will launch the Columbus Virtual High School (CVHS) next fall. It will allow students to complete their course work via computer. About 100 to 125 students can enroll in the program in the first year, said Pete Maneff, executive director for high school curriculum. Read the Full Story

Course connection: Hudson’s Virtual High School links students from around the world

Bogosian, along with 162 Hudson High School students and nearly 5,000 students worldwide, is a student in Virtual High School.Read the Full Story

Kids’ inventions help zoo swipe top int’l award

A fish catapult, a rope hammock, a food cube and a mirror are just a few of the innovative design ideas school students came up with while working on Auckland Zoo Education Service’s ‘Sniff, Swing & Swipe’ project. Read the Full Story

New University of Miami Online High School Going Live

The University of Miami Division of Continuing and International Education and the Sagemont Virtual School announced today a collaboration agreement to create the University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS).Read the Full Story

Click on, class in session

“Today’s teenagers are digital natives, I’m a digital immigrant,” quips Heidi Brushert Laabs, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for iQ Academies in Waukesha, an educational alternative through the state’s open enrollment school choice system.Read the Full Story

Avon Maitland District School Board concerned about distance education

Her question was why the board’s Distance Education program is losing money, after having been championed by staff for its potential to draw in students — and the funding that comes with them — from far and wide.Read the Full Story

New principal gears up for district’s new virtual school

“We had one terminal. The kids had one hour a week they could work on it individually,” said Diener. “It was slow and it wasn’t very powerful.”Read the Full Story

Online charter school to open this fall

Instead, they can earn the required credits from home through the newly approved online charter school, Silver State High School.Read the Full Story

Distance learning to be available at Eastern

Eastern, a member of the Southern Indiana Educational Center consortium, will receive an estimated $60,000 to $70,000 in high-tech distance learning equipment for a $2,800 matching grant cost, superintendent Randy Barrett told the school board Tuesday night.Read the Full Story

Hoover High gets Hewlett-Packard technology grant

HP Technology for Teaching awards for the 2004-05 academic year – which involves using technology to accelerate learning – are going to eight Southern California schools:Hoover High School, San Diego;Read the Full Story