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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Students will soon have access to a new kind of school with web-heavy curriculum, thanks to a charter school recently authorized by Grand Valley State University trustees. The Virginia-based K-12 Inc. will launch a charter school this fall that will require students to do half of their schoolwork over the Internet. The other half...
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Elk Grove Unified School District has opened enrollment for its first-ever virtual school. Students attending the school will have all the supplies needed to finish a school year delivered to their doorsteps. They will learn most of their lessons at home, but will visit a campus for tests and to meet occasionally with a...
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Designing Digitally, Inc., a full-service interactive design company and virtual world developer, was recently awarded a long-term contract with the United States Air Force Academy to completely develop, host and maintain a browser based virtual campus tour. This virtual campus allows the academy to reach interested high school students regardless of their geographic location....
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Education students might be asked to help with the new Montana Digital Academy after courses start this fall. “One thing I’m very interested in is having graduate or undergraduate students fill the role of tutor in online courses,” academy director Bob Currie said. Currie said the academy has no specific plans for tutors yet,...
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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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