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State education leaders are looking closely at Web Academy as they debate a proposed virtual charter school that would use a similar distance-learning approach. The State Board of Education is expected to vote Thursday on a charter for New Connections Academy, which could reach students across the state from its Granville County base.
RACINE — Area residents will be introduced to a new type of charter school Tuesday evening, when representatives of an organization known as Wisconsin Connections Academy hold an open house at the Racine Public Library at 7 p.m. The group is setting up a virtual school and is seeking a charter from the Appleton Area […]
PORT CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte County School District needed a low-cost way to remediate high school students.
By: Sam Houston, Ed. D., former superintendent of Mooresville schools and former executive director of the N.C. Standards and Accountability Commission.
The use of technology in classrooms has grown quickly in New Jersey, largely due to dedicated state aid over the last five years – about $40 per student, some $59 million for 2001-2002. Funds are available to both public and private schools. But the program ends this year, and could easily fall victim to the […]
Four local schools are going wireless, thanks to a $500,000 state technology literacy challenge fund grant.
NEWMAN GROVE – The teacher at Pierce High School pops in a short video after the class discussion and presses play.
Brunken is the media director and distance learning coordinator at Educational Service Unit 7 in Columbus. She said the region’s distance learning consortium is the last one in the state to be developed. But because of this distinction, the telecommunication equipment being installed for fall use will be state of the art.
Joe Marrone refuses to brag about Quaker Valley’s Digital School District because, by his own admission, it’s too soon.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Armed with a sophisticated ice borer, professor Daniel Shain went hunting on Byron Glacier for a scientific treasure — the tiny, fragile ice worm.