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LSU gives Louisiana high school students second chance at success

Graduating from high school is one of the first major milestones in a young person’s life. Each year LSU helps approximately 1,500 students from 450 Louisiana high schools graduate on time. “We [LSU] can claim to have the largest high school graduating class in Louisiana,” said Ronald McCrory, director of the LSU Independent Study Program, […]

California targets school divide

More than 1,800 California public high schools will share $167 million in education technology grants as part of Gov. Gray Davis plan to provide students with state-of-the-art computers.

Distance Learning: Local school districts like program

Since the early 90s, 18 school districts in three counties have joined the South Central Consortium to provide distance learning to their students.

Learning on laptops

Now that every eighth-grader at Piscataquis Community Middle School in Guilford has a laptop computer, field trips are a snap.

School Specialty’s online division cuts work force in half

School Specialty formed its dot-com division last spring. The timing couldn’t have been worse.

Children’s learning centers embrace the 21st Century

Every afternoon at Glasgow Middle School in Fairfax County, kids break dance, paint, play music and act. It’s a program funded by 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a component of the Clinton administration’s efforts to keep children safe, provide academic and cultural enrichment and establish lifelong learning opportunities for community members.

The Princeton Review Adds Test Preparation for the ACT to Its Online Courses

For the more than one million over- scheduled and stressed-out high school students who will take the ACT in 2001, The Princeton Review has good news. A leading provider of test preparation and college admissions services, The Princeton Review is bringing the coolest, most engaging test preparation classes right to the students with the launch […]

Online Education Companies Clicking

At Hononegah High School in Rockton, Ill., the school Web site has been operated the past couple of years by an Internet company known as Highwired.com.

STUDIES SHOW E-RATE PROVIDES NEW LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR NATION’S DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS

Two U.S. Department of Education studies show that the E-Rate is helping make significant progress in providing new learning opportunities to the nation’s most disadvantaged students.

U.S. Dept. of Education report says students are unprepared for college

(U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas — High school graduates are entering college unprepared and undereducated, according to a study released Wednesday.