Archive for the ‘K-12’ Category

Budget crunch forces schools to reconsider laptop program

Called Freedom to Learn, the one-to-one computing initiative is seen by many as the next step toward putting a laptop into the hands of every K-12 student throughout the state.Read the Full Story

Columbus Public Schools Adopts Blackboard Learning System and Blackboard Portal System

10/15/2003 , Washington, D.C. – Blackboard Inc, the leading e-Education software company, announced that Columbus Public Schools, the second largest school district in the state of Ohio, has joined its growing K-12 client community. In order to fulfill its commitment to excellence in teaching, learning and community building, Columbus Public Schools officials recently made a […]

Virtual school could target middle, high school students

WAUKESHA – The first online charter school to target middle and high school students could start in Waukesha.Read the Full Story

Online school keeps kids in line

A year after dropping half the students enrolled in Virtual High School for failing to perform, Cincinnati Public Schools has redesigned the program to give it the stability and structure of a traditional classroom, while offering computer-driven lessons and a work-at-your-own pace schedule. Read the Full Story

The great escape

Schools, once worried about hiring, now ask: How do we keep them?Read the Full Story

Teachers space out

“e-Mission: Operation Montserrat” was a simulated mission based on a real life event, and teachers took their responsibility very seriously. Kuss was linked via the Internet with Wheeling Jesuit University’s Challenger Learning Center in West Virginia for the distance learning session. Read the Full Story

Apex Learning Announces Agreement with Boxer Learning to Distribute BoxerMath Curriculum

The agreement, effective immediately, allows Apex Learning to extend its ClassTools(TM) line of online instructional resources to include math for elementary, middle and high school students. Read the Full Story

NP [North Penn] takes part in Virtual High School

“It is a lot more work than people anticipate. The kids were in the system and doing their work‚ but not a part of the class‚” said Linda Westerlund‚ business‚ administration and technology department chair. “As such‚ if something came up‚ it was difficult for the student to get the help they needed.” Read the […]

In high school, virtually

The teachers of those classes won’t be coming to Walpole, though. The instructors assign homework, check attendance and grade tests from computers around the world, with the aid of the Internet-based program called Virtual High School.Read the Full Story

Online Learning Strategy for Schools is Envy of Europe

Prof David Hargreaves, chairman of the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, will also reveal how the Province’s £204 million strategy is the “envy of Europe” when he addresses 800 delegates from the profession in Belfast this morning.Read the Full Story