The percentage of high school students taking online courses nearly doubled in a single year. According to the latest data available from Project Tomorrow’s annual Speak Up Survey, more than one-quarter (27 percent) of all high school students took at least one class online last year, up from 14 percent the year before. But...
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Arizona State University has expanded its online degree and certification programs for PK-12 teachers, including the addition of a new credential for online teaching. Tuition will be the same whether the student is in state or out of state. Beginning with the fall 2010 semester, six new programs in the education area will be...
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Vanessajoie Castillo had been hoping to get ahead in the race for college by taking precalculus and trigonometry courses this summer at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. But when the James Lick High School student arrived last week to register, she found the classroom packed — and the waiting list already closed. Her...
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The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education unanimously approved a proposal Tuesday night to implement an online academic program that will allow students to earn credits on their own schedule. During a board meeting, Zachary Barnes, the director of graduation success and dropout prevention for the school system, and Robert Coates, director of secondary education,...
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On Thursday, Agora Cyber Charter School, a public cyber charter school, held its fourth graduation ceremony honoring 242 seniors who successfully completed the online high school course requirements and received their diplomas. Graduation took place at 7pm Thursday evening at the West Shore Evangelical Church and Conference Center in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Approximately 150 of...
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The Commonwealth Connections Academy (CCA)-Lehighton held its commencement at Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe last night. Thirty-one students entered to the music of “Pomp and Circumstance.” Each wore a black gown with a cap and tassel. They looked just like any other graduating class. But CCA graduates have one distinction-many had never even met their...
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As a struggling high school student in metro Detroit, Kyle Grigg faced a terrible prospect. Last spring, Kyle was asked by his public high school counselor to leave the school because he did not have enough time to make up lost credits and graduate. Kyle knew he didn’t want to be one of the...
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Online education is exploding in cyberspace with more than one million secondary school students taking online courses in the 2008–2009 school year. Taking advantage of this trend, four NAIS-member schools launched the Online School for Girls (OSG) in the summer of 2009. A joint project of Holton-Arms (Maryland), Westover (Connecticut), Harpeth Hall (Tennessee), and...
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Samantha Edwards had what some would call the opportunity of a lifetime – the chance to travel the globe as a teenage model. But that would have made another goal that she and her parents had much more difficult – earning her high school degree. Enter BAVEL, the Barren Academy of Virtual and Expanded...
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At 12 years old, Powell Middle School gymnast Jacqueline Jacobs recently achieved a lofty goal when she traveled to Chicago to compete in a national tournament. At the IGI Chicago Style Gymnastic Invitational, which bills itself as ‘The Largest Women’s Gymnastic Meet in the World,’ Jacobs won the Level 9 all-around title against some...
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