Online high school gets Waukesha panel’s vote
Waukesha – A possible virtual high school got a preliminary vote of confidence Tuesday when a School Board committee directed administrators to proceed with planning for the school.Read the Full Story
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Web academy would cater to home-schoolers
MILWAUKIE — Many home-schooled students may soon find themselves enrolled in public school again, if the proposed Oregon Web Academy becomes reality.Read the Full Story
Making it to class easy for online students
I just was not ready to go away,” she said. “I missed my family. I missed my room. My roommate was awful. It just wasn’t what I expected.”Read the Full Story
World comes to students: Technology unites diverse classrooms
It’s called distance-learning, and across Metro Detroit more and more districts are latching on to technology such as fiber optics and high-speed phone lines to hold videoconferences that directly link kids with events, speakers or activities that can be thousands of miles away. Read the Full Story
Pittsford schools approve online learning
Beginning next fall, students will probably have their first opportunity to use that additional educational tool.Read the Full Story
Virtual schools grow, learn
For Katie and Bailey Lecato of Grafton, the daily commute to school this year is measured in footsteps rather than miles.Read the Full Story
Ashford kids lead distance education pack
The school’s nine pioneer students in the pilot program excelled in advanced English, chemistry, physics, information processes and technology and industrial technology – wood.Read the Full Story
Peer tutors go to front of class
The Grade 12 peer-tutoring course, still in its infancy, sees 36 students spend four days a week in class at their schools, helping their teacher and younger students. They spend one day a week getting through the curriculum online. Read the Full Story
District may expand online program for failing seniors
The money, which is scheduled to be voted on at tonight’s school board meeting, would pay for 600 students to attend Internet-based classes through the private, for-profit company Educational Options Inc.Read the Full Story
Three-year-olds use wireless laptops
After hearing success stories about the use of laptop computers in grade school, the Primrose School Franchising Co., which operates preschools in several states throughout the South and Southwest, decided to try laptops for preschoolers as well.Read the Full Story
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