To whittle the state’s dropout rate, Gov. Rick Perry proposes creating a virtual high school that would let students take classes online if they can’t make it to school every day. As an incentive for kids to stay in school, Perry said, he wants the state to require that high school students be taking...
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What motivates a growing number of virtual-school students to forgo the traditional school structure and take their classes entirely online? At the Virtual School Symposium hosted in mid-October in Phoenix by the North American Council for Online Learning, virtual-school students explained they like being able to progress at their own pace–and some said they appreciate being...
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