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Students at PVHS, THS share one teacher in groundbreaking video-linked Spanish I class

It’s a Tuesday early in the school year, and Pahrump Valley High School teacher Susan Warner is showing her students how to count and write their addresses in Spanish. Read the Full Article

University Circle institutions broadcasting to classrooms

But the new Center for Distance Learning, which opened yesterday at the Western Reserve Historical Society, will move the journey in the other direction, too, by sending the cultural and educational resources of University Circle institutions into the classroom. Read the Full Article

New-age teaching

Students in next year’s Year 12 TEE accounting class will have their lessons broadcast to the school from another classroom across the state. Read the Full Article

Two high schools should be as good as one

A second session will be held Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fairfield High library Read the Full Article

Parents positive despite WEAC lawsuit

APPLETON — The Viall family drove from Waukesha to Appleton on Friday to collect three free computers, software and a printer that will link them with Wisconsin’s first virtual school. Read the Full Article

District Wide Web

If the question is how to improve instruction for 4,600 students in a cash-strapped K- 8 district, their answer is, “Innovation, innovation, innovation.” Read the Full Article

Home-schoolers to be invited to proposed virtual school

That was the suggestion of school board member Dave Pederson at Monday evening’s regular monthly meeting of the board, as they discussed possibilities for the program, which would offer learning and course credits via the Web. Read the Full Article

Here’s an IDEA: individualized schedules for kids

As summer winds down and the new school year launches, many students find themselves back in a building they remember very well. This is not the case for almost 4,000 Interior Distance Education of Alaska students. While IDEA students in grades K to 12 do have an office building — actually five in Alaska — […]

NASA Student Involvement Program Resources Available

NSIP is a series of competitions for students in grades K-12. Read the Full Article

An Individualized Education

When 13-year-old Kyle Suckow was a kindergartner, he struggled to keep up with the class and was in his own world. Just before turning 6 and entering first grade, he was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. Read the Full Article