White Pine Offering Virtual School
Wanted: Students. The public school district in White Pine County has begun advertising for high school students in Clark County.
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Virtual Study
It shouldn’t be too long in Frederick County’s public schools before the term “virtual school” has a significant meaning in children’s education. Our state Board of Education has given its OK to a plan to help educate students who cannot attend classes. By the school year 2002, it could help home-bound students as well as […]
Ridge Administration Announces 30 PA Schools Competing to Become Nation’s First Two `Digital School Districts’
CARLISLE, Pa., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ — On behalf of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, Education Secretary Eugene W. Hickok today announced that 30 school districts will advance in a statewide competition to become the nation’s first two “Digital School Districts.”
Apex Learning and Milwaukee Public Schools Launch Virtual Schools in 21 High Schools
Twenty-fourth Largest School District in the Nation Provides Online Advanced Placement Courses
San Diego Charter School a Model for Technology Leaders
The progress of an industry-initiated high-tech charter school in San Diego is sparking interest from technology leaders seeking to boost the number of students graduating with marketable technology skills. (Free Registration Required)
Lightspan Gets Million Dollar Contract in Granite School District in Utah to Expand Interactive Multimedia Program
SAN DIEGO, Oct 31, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Lightspan announced today that it is expanding its partnership with the Granite School District in Salt Lake City, Utah to provide interactive curriculum-based programs. The million-dollar contract represents significant hardware and software enhancements for a broad scale implementation of five elementary schools throughout the district. West Lake […]
StudyWorks! Mathematics Deluxe: the New #1 Math Title
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 31, 2000–MathSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: MATH – news), the nation’s fastest growing publisher of educational software, today announced that StudyWorks! Mathematics Deluxe was the overall top revenue-producing math software title on the market in September, according to PC Data. Mathematics Deluxe outsold every other math education product on the market, including those targeting […]
Internet-Access Provider to Schools Getting Out of Education Business
It looks like ZapMe! Corp. is on its way to zapping itself out of school classrooms.
Students warm up to distance learning
Students in the tiny Blackwell schools are learning to habla espanol with the help of television screens, video cameras and a teacher who’s 90 miles away.
Web-based High School Ready to go National
Starting next month, the Florida High School, a Web-based public school that offers virtual classes to the state’s students, will have real-time conversations in courses. That announcement, expected today at the National School Boards Association’s Technology & Learning conference in Denver, also includes plans to make FHS courses available to other school districts.