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This past week I have been trying to find other blogs, or at least entries from other blogs on the virtual school movement. A few that I came across were Althouses post on Virtual High School , Snooze Button Dreams entry entitled Virtual School , Kimberly’s Number 2 Pencil’s post titled Surf the web, earn an A , and Joanne Jacobs entry on Online classes for all . The essence of these entries look at who virtual schools are for and how they will affect the quality of education.

I’ll leave the second issue for another day, but I wanted to look at the first issue in this entry. Many of you who have been reading my blog to date know of my own bias towards students in rural schools who are disadvantaged because their schools aren’t able to attract teachers qualified to teach specialized courses or they simply don’t have the enrolment figures to justify allocating a teacher to so few students.

But let me through out the issue in another way. The legislature here in Georgia, has decided that not only will the publically-funded, state-wide virtual high school cater to students in the public system, but will also be available to students in private schools and homeschooled students. While I am no expert on the homeschooling movement, I do know that I had a homeschooled student in one of my online Advanced Placement courses a few years back.

This girl was an exception student who was in my course for two reasons: the content was at a level where she felt that she was unable to do it on her own and her family were unable to support it, and she was interested in trying out an online course because it was something that was becoming quite popular at the university that she was interested in attending. It was at about the same time that the Pennsylvania Homeschoolers Association was beginning to offer their online courses (see http://www.pahomeschoolers.com/courses/index.html ).

While the feelings towards the online opportunities offered to homeschooled students by virtual schools was mixed in the four blogs above, I can’t see how these opportunities could be a bad thing?!? Like any instructional product, there are online courses that are well designed and online courses that aren’t so well designed. Like any traditional classroom, there are some online teachers who are quite good and some online teachers that aren’t so good. However, I would argue that in many of the specialized areas (such as the AP courses offered by the Pennsylvania Homeschoolers Association) are beyond the ability of many parents of homeschooled students to support in a way that maintains the academic rigour of these courses.

But like I said, I’m no expert in homeschooling So let’s hear from those out there who know a little bit more about the homeschool movement than I. What do y’all think?

Tags: virtual school , cyber school , homeschool , high school , education

You might find this pilot site of interest.

It’s a gateway to two SEAL sites, one for primary schools the other for secondaries .

SEAL I’m sure you’ll remember stands for social and emotional aspects of learning.

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Young People&s User Involvement and Participation in Their Drug and Alcohol Service .

The Children’s Society have been commissioned by the NTA to develop a policy briefing on young people&s user involvement and participation in their drug and alcohol service.

If you have examples of good practice where this happens, please send them to susie.ramsay@childrenssociety.org.uk , tel: 0207 841 4573.

Filed under: treatment , users voice , Children’s Society , NTA

I asked if Id give people a health warning in schools Conference:

The Thomas Coram Research Unit are putting on what looks to be an interesting conference:

This conference aims to provide participants with new ways of thinking about promotion of the health and well-being of children and young people. Themes and topics to be addressed include:

-alcohol use

-bullying

-sexual health

-physical activity, obesity and healthy lifestyles

-mental health and wellbeing

The conference will be on 14th May in London.  You can download the flier from here .

Filed under: Conferences , Institute of Education

Those of you who work directly with young people might want to take a look at this competition : to making sure that the review benefits from an open process and takes serious account of the views of all its stakeholders.  QCA has already begun this process.  Over the coming months they will be running a series of regional conferences and seminars to seek views and develop proposals.

Looking at the questions the ones that seem most relevant to us are the two around Personal Development:

-What are the personal, social and emotional capabilities that children need to develop through their schooling?

-What is the most appropriate framework for achieving greater integration of these capabilities throughout the curriculum?

Just to remind people this is different to the Primary Review that&s being underaken here .

Further reading:

- What’s happened to PSHE in Primary School? – evidence on the reduced amount of time spent on PSHE teaching in primary schools

- Brown’s ‘radical’ drugs review & The Prime Minister says he wants drug education in primary schools.

Filed under: PSHE , Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum

We have a lot from a bunch of different sources this week. These first couple actually come from eSchool News Online .

Students get access to classes statewide Mobile Register – Mobile, AL, USA

Students at Alma Bryant High School in Bayou La Batre will soon be able to take classes being taught at schools across the state via the Internet. Bryant was one of 46 Alabama schools to receive a technology grant known as ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide). It’s part of a $3.4 million statewide pilot program. Officials hope ACCESS will one day allow students throughout the state to take unique electives and advanced courses offered elsewhere, according to the State Department of Education, which chooses the schools that get the money. [Directly to the Mobile Register ]

More S.D. students taking classes online ArgusLeader.com – Sioux Fall, SD, UGA

A rapidly growing number of college students are avoiding lectures and early morning commitments by taking classes online through South Dakota’s public universities. So many in fact, that the number of credit hours delivered electronically in 2004-05 is 36 percent higher than the previous year. More than four out of 10 of those students are even living on campus, but for one reason or another choose to take classes over their personal computers. [Directly to the ArgusLeader.com ]

Webcast: Virtual school helps at-risk students succeed

Online instruction has helped several at-risk Illinois students finish their high school education and earn their diploma, when it’s likely many of these students otherwise would have dropped out of the system, said Sarah Antrim-Cambium, the Illinois Virtual High School (IVHS) coordinator for participating schools in Cook County. Antrim-Cambium was speaking at a Dec. 14 webcast sponsored by the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL). The purpose of the event was to highlight how virtual schooling can be used to reach students who are at risk of failing or of dropping out of the traditional school system.

This next one is from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development SmartBrief .

Pennsylvania to review cyberschool funding formula eSchool News – Bethesda, MD, USA

Pennsylvania lawmakers will hold hearings this year to revisit the state’s funding formula for its 12 charter cyberschools, which currently serve more than 10,000 students. District leaders contend the amounts they’ve had to give cyberschools exceed the online schools’ actual costs. [May require free registration]

These two are from Edutopia News – the electronic newsletter from The George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Web Courses Offer Students Second Chance The Herald – Rock Hill, SC, USA

Students in York, South Carolina, who are failing or nearly failing high school courses needed for graduation have a new online tool that aims to help them. Starting this month, the local school district will launch NovaNet.

Online Learning

Throughout the country, schools are turning to online courses to enhance and enrich their curriculum. Learn more about this nationwide trend in Edutopia’s multimedia special report on online learning.

This next one comes from EdTech Trends .

Online state program expands schools’ curricula The Des Moines Register – Des Moines, IA, USA

Cassidy Thompson was skeptical about taking a class taught by a teacher located 25 miles away from her Story County high school. But Cassidy said she’s learned more from Iowa Learning Online ’s physics class than she would have from a traditional high school class. “It’s been a challenge, but it’s been good,” said Cassidy, 17, a senior at Maxwell-Collins High School. “If we wouldn’t have been offered the class online, we wouldn’t have been able to take physics.”

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. The Google News Alert for the terms cyber and school and the terms virtual and school.

Students in dark on cyber school crash Australian – Australia

Students at Australia’s best-known computer training college could lose thousands of dollars each if its owners fail to find a buyer. Computer Power’s 1254 students and 90 staff at the college, which operates 11 training facilities in Australia and New Zealand, arrived for classes this week to find doors locked and the company in the hands of administrators. One student told The Australian he had been unable to get any information on the future of the college, and all calls went unanswered. The college’s website had no information.

Bricks v. Clicks in Pa. funding fight eSchool News (subscription) – Bethesda, MD, USA

In the latest salvo in the battle over cyber school funding, Pennsylvania legislators say they want to reduce the amount of money that cyber schools receive under the state’s current formula. These schools don’t incur the same per-pupil costs of traditional bricks-and-mortar schools, state legislators argue–and funding them at the same per-pupil levels takes funding away from traditional-school students. Pennsylvania state lawmakers are looking to revise a funding formula that reportedly allows the state’s 12 cyber charter schools to pocket more money than their expenses–a formula that has been sore spot with school districts since it was implemented in 2000.

Gettysburg board split on cyber student decision Gettysburg Times – Gettysburg, PA, USA

Amid conflicting viewpoints among board members, the Gettysburg Area school board passed a motion Monday evening to allow a cyber charter school student to participate in extracurricular speech and debate activities at no cost. The motion passed 4-3, with board members Ron Weaner, Dale Biesecker, Doyle Waybright and Todd Orner voting in the affirmative and Marcia McClain, Terrence McClain and board president Pat Symmes voting no. The boardis policy committee will meet Thursday to begin formulating a policy for future requests, said superintendent Dr. David Mowery.

Virtual High School For Katrina Victims InternetNews.com – USA

Katrina took their high school down, and their chemistry teacher left town. But 28 students at Pass Christian High School will still get a shot at passing chemistry, thanks to an online course administered by Michigan Virtual High School (MIVH). MIVH spokeswoman Erin Stang wasn’t sure how the Mississippi high school administrators found her organization, a non-profit funded by Michigan.

Tags: virtual school , cyber school , high school , education

QUESTION: Do you think the world governments are putting forth enough effort to stop and prevent human trafficking? If you had the means and power what would be your proposed resolution?

The movie Taken was released January 30, 2009. The action, adventure, and drama filled thriller made over 145 million dollars in the United States box office. The film portrayed a family distraught, because their young teenage daughter had been kidnapped on an international vacation. Her father, known as a “preventer”, saved his daughter from being bought and sold into the sex trafficking business.

The idea of a mainstream film revealing the devastating details of this ever-growing industry says that people worldwide are being affected by this epidemic. Therefore, it is up to world citizens to ask their country’s governments, “What are you doing about this issue?” and “How can you protect my family?” From the shocking stories, primetime specials and film portrayals of this industry, one would conclude that there is danger around ever corner.

Although human trafficking is a worldwide epidemic, many Americans are under the impression that young women and children are only being abducted from foreign countries, but they are sadly mistaken. There have been several incidents reported where children and young women have been abducted from several places which most wouldn’t believe to be perilous. It appears as if there is nothing our governments can do to reduce the occurrence of forced prostitution worldwide. While it may be easier to track criminals who put children and young women on the streets, those whom continue to move to different locations makes finding the missing persons a challenge for police officers and government officials.

Knowing that there may potentially be predators lurking around every corner, riding down your street or even in line behind you at the grocery store; one might ask is any place safe? Is there really anything the police and lawmakers can do to combat this violent epidemic? Though there are non-government agencies that battle for the enslaved children and young women being trafficked, and there have been laws passed making human trafficking a federal crime, there are still over 100,000 women and children being bought and sold in America everyday. As citizens of the world we must demand that the deplorable people that commit these horrible acts be severely punished.

By Karenia S. Ferguson

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Kizz
January 25, 2007 at 2:30 pm

Equally confused vs. Equally as confused

Have I asked this already? Have you answered already?

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wayfarerbrian
January 20, 2007 at 3:00 am

You present a viable, workable and appropriate solution to the problem. It keeps your policy consistent, but also allows you the flexibility to help students you feel deserve the support without jeopardizing the evenhandedness of your policy. Whether Joe accepts it or not, I think you did right here.

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Organic Mama
January 18, 2007 at 2:46 pm

I wish I could say that I didn’t have pet peeves when it comes to language and its consistent misuse, but for some reason when people write Insure when they mean Ensure, it sends me barking. Minutiae, no doubt, but it’s one of those things that makes me nuts.

I live with a wonderful man, brilliant doctor, Ph.D, blah blah, who is indifferent to say the least about grammar and spelling conventions. While I suspect he leaves some real pearls in his work to test me when I am asked to “take a look” before he sends it, his haphazard use of apostrophes etc. makes me realize that despite my best efforts in the classroom, and despite the intelligence of some of the students, some kids will never care enough to get the rules down.

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angelfeet
January 10, 2007 at 5:58 pm

OK, I’m newish to your blog, Mrs Chilli, but I thought it only polite to delurk and say hi!

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From my inbox, a little reminder about these NACOL sessions.
Monthly Webinars for February 2008 February 13, 2008
2:00 PM (Eastern)
“Trends, Myths, and Action in Professional Development for K-12 Online Teaching” Open until 2 PM (ET) the day before the webinar.This Webinar complements two recent white papers that NACOL released on professional development at 2007 VSS last November: Going Virtual! The Status of Professional Development for K-12 Online Teachers and Professional Development for Online Schooling and Online Learning .The Webinar will overview national trends in the professional development of K-12 online teachers and debunk common misconceptions in relation to preparing teachers to teach and facilitate K-12 online learning. This session covers the professional development continuum from pre-service through in-service to master educator.

Presenters

Niki Davis , Director of Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching

Lisa Dawley , Chair of the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University

Kerry Rice , Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State UniversityFebruary 21, 2008
6:00 PM (Eastern)
“Making Sense of Content Standards through Reconceptualization”

Open until 3 PM (ET) the day before the webinar.During this Webinar, we will explore what it means to reconceptualize academic content standards and how it relates to creating meaningful and engaging lessons. We will also discuss ways in which online professional learning communities can aid in this process.

Presenters

2009/10/5

Dear Frederick,

What sort of items for teachers did you have in mind?

Basically two kinds: items for MLE coordinators, who might have limited teaching responsibilities and spend more of their time developing innovations and assisting classroom teachers in their implementation. Existing personnel are fully loaded, and MLE is unlikely to prosper unless somebody can focus their full attention on it.

Also items for additional classroom teachers, so that at least for piloting, normal sections of fifty can be split into sections of 2 x 25 or 3 x 18, sizes that are conducive to innovative teaching methods. The items will not necessarily go to the MLE pilot sections, but would free up the best and most experienced teachers to work on MLE innovation.

What is necessary is the help of bilingual teachers to teach and demonstrate instructions and directions in both languages.

Almost any candidates or teachers in our region would be bilingual, that is not a problem. I think the challenge is to shift the use of the Mother Tongue from “medium of repeated presentation to satisfy low expectations in reading English” to “medium of task-based goal-setting, organizing, reading, writing and assessment to achieve high level standards in fluent reading in the mother tongue.” At the same time, I indicated a strategy of reinvigorating ESL teaching, first for limited hours as a subject taught substantially in Cebuano, and later, if resources are available, in a well-supported “immersion-style” small section for intensive ESL which makes use of the mother tongue literacy they have already achieved. I have a detailed draft concept paper of the intensive ESL strategy if you are interested, and am working on drafting something for Kindergarten and Grade I focused on Cebuano reading and spoken English as a subject.

Having accepted that children learn best when there is good understanding of what is required.

We are an innovative and resourceful people. Let the teachers build networks among themselves and ask each other to help each other improve understanding of their lessons.

Yes, but as Mario Taguiwalo suggested a good strategy can make a difference between success and failure after the goal is agreed. And as Diane Dekker suggested, there are risks to a half-baked implementation.

Sometimes it helps to know what children have in their homes and use these as building blocks for what can be done in schools.

I am definitely interested in involving parents and family members, and have some ideas how that can be done.

Maybe an English Cebuano dictionary?

I am quite interested in learner’s dictionaries, and have been working on developing English-Cebuano resources. This includes graded vocabulary lists for introducing specific senses of meaning at appropriate grade levels, and ensuring the children have active mastery of a core vocabulary (they can produce sentences with those words, during the first 2-3 years of school in spoken form, and in later grades in writing (or rewriting into English the themes they wrote first in the mother tongue). I suspect recognition vocabulary will come automatically if the children are supported in regular and ambitious reading targets, but a productive vocabulary needs serious learning support, including speaking and later writing tasks with feedback.

I have an English Filipino dictionary. Would this be useful? Are the common Cebuano words not known to most teachers in Cebu?

Almost any teacher or candidate in Region 7 would be fluent in Cebuano. The problem is not equivalents of common words, but how the teacher can be sensitized to the multiple senses of meaning of English vocabulary, so they can ensure students achieve mastery of multiple senses appropriate for their grade. For example, a common word like “break”.

—- excerpt from draft

“break” has a basic meaning of “an object suddenly separates into several parts, usually because it is dropped or hit” (= CEB nabuak, FIL nabasag), which will be introduced in Grade I. In Grade II, they can study the additional meaning “If someone breaks for a short period of time, they rest or change from what they are doing for a short period.” (= CEB nagpahuway, FIL nagpahinga) and the related noun (= CEB miryinda, FIL meriyenda).

In Grade III, they can learn some patterns of how common words have extended meanings. For example, a leg is broken (= CEB nabali ang bukog, FIL nabalian (ng buto)) even if it remains a physical whole, but the bone inside might be cracked. A machine breaks (= CEB naguba, FIL nasira) even if there is no separation of parts, what is important is that it doesn’t work anymore. Sometimes the focus is not on a object that breaks, but on an agent that breaks loose. Related to the idea of interrupting a continuing activity, you can break a silence, or break a journey. They can study derived words like breakfast (= CEB pamahaw, FIL almusal), perhaps in relation to learning that “fast” can also mean not eating (= CEB mag-puasa, FIL mag-ayuno), daybreak (=CEB banag-banag, FIL bukang liwayway?), breakage.

In higher grades, they can study how different prepositions help signal different meanings: break into X, break with Y, break from Z. The word also participates in “phrasal verbs” where the verb is used with a prepositional form that no longer carries its usual relational meaning but signals a special meaning of the verb: break down, break out, break up. They can study idioms using the word: break someone’s heart, break new ground, break even.

The vocabulary lists will identify specific senses of meaning for a word that will be studied at different grades, so that a common word with many different meanings will be studied systematically several times over the years. That way the pupils can achieve a better mastery of the core language in both writing and reading, and have greater confidence and effectiveness in using language as a tool for learning Science and Health.

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The above analysis is based on the COBUILD dictionary, which is very useful for teachers (and has a softcopy version). I also have the Longman Dictionary of American English, which is even more user friendly for students, but less detailed. What is lacking is an English-Cebuano (and English-Filipino) learner’s dictionary embodying similar principles in support of the needs of young learners. For Cebuano, there are several English-Cebuano dictionaries including a very large one just published by SunStar. Unfortunately, it is more like a bilingual thesaurus designed for fluent speakers of both English and Cebuano who are used to writing English and are trying to find the right word or phrase in Cebuano. The entries are not self explanatory for children, and are not necessarily very useful for parents or teachers.

If you know somebody who is interested in working on a bilingual learner’s dictionary (English into Cebuano or Filipino, or both) I am interested in collaborating. I am also interested in developing other kinds of language resources, including vocabulary development materials based on grade-level lists of targeted senses of meaning.

I notice your email address is at Miriam. If you are with the college, you might want to help organize research activities along these lines, I would be happy to give a talk the next time I am in Manila. I am a colleague of Dr. Ibe on the board of trustees of Philippine Science High School, give her my regards if she still is involved with MC.

Cheers,

Fred

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Frederick B. Kintanar
Cebu City

Jasmin

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I had this news item forwarded to me from a friend of mine also interested in virtual schooling:

http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1270&issue=apr_05 HIGHSCHOOL.COM

All over the country, secondary school students are going online for classes. Will the virtual classroom redefine what it means to be a student — or a teacher?

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Virtual Schooling in the News.

Again from a bunch of different sources this week. From Edutopia News – the electronic newsletter from The George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Highschool.com

All over the country, secondary school students are going online for classes. Will the virtual classroom redefine what it means to be a student — or a teacher?

By Christina Wood

Katarina Williams is an ambitious tenth grader in Haines City, Florida, shouldering the full burden of college-prep coursework: trigonometry, English, Earth-space science, economics, and American government. But trig is the only class that requires her to sit in a traditional classroom. The others she attends via modem, without leaving her house.

Williams, a student at the Florida Virtual School, is part of a new generation of students trading textbooks for text messaging. Nearly 300,000 high schoolers attended online classes in 2002-03, estimates Eduventures, an independent research firm. Most take an online class or two to obtain access to classes not available at their local school, gain a competitive edge when preparing for college, or accommodate a jammed schedule. A few, though, are so convinced of the efficacy of online instruction that they’ve abandoned traditional schools.

Read the full article about the burgeoning online-learning movement from the April 2005 issue of Edutopia magazine, the award-winning publication of The George Lucas Educational Foundation.

http://email.e-mailnetworks.com/ct/ct.php?t=1145728&c=649404757&m=m&type=3

Online Charters Woo Students

The number of online schools in Ohio has grown considerably in recent years, and students at top-rated schools in the state are enrolling in an online charter school despite the virtual school’s poor academic rankings.

http://email.e-mailnetworks.com/ct/ct.php?t=1145716&c=649404757&m=m&type=3

Want to learn more about the online-learning phenomenon? An Edutopia special report on this international trend features profiles of model programs and interviews with students, teachers, and experts.

http://email.e-mailnetworks.com/ct/ct.php?t=1145715&c=649404757&m=m&type=3

And fromour Google News Alert service for virtual school and for cyber school.

Virtual high school to stay put Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) – Milwaukee, WI, USA

Computers will remain powered up for students in the School District’s virtual high school after the School Board approved a revised five-year contract at a meeting Wednesday. The future of iQ Academies at Wisconsin, the Waukesha-based school that provides online instruction to students around the state, had been in doubt after School Board members raised concerns about a projected deficit at the end of the school year. As it is, the school is expected to post a $604,000 deficit for the year ending in June. But revisions to the district’s contract with KC Distance Learning, the private company that manages the school, mean that the district won’t incur further debt even if iQ doesn’t add enrollment for the next school year, district officials said. [ See all stories on this topic ]

Lt. Governor Perdue appoints Bruce Friend to lead NC Virtual’s … Carolina Newswire (press release) – NC, USA

Lt. Governor Bev Perdue, Chair of the State’s Business Education Technology Alliance, announced the appointment of Bruce Friend to lead North Carolina’s Virtual High School efforts at a meeting of the State Board of Education today. “Bruce Friend comes to NC with the experience and background we’re looking for to lead our efforts to create a first class Virtual High School that will serve our students from the coast to the mountains,” Perdue said. “Friend comes to this position having been Chief Academic Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of the Florida Virtual School where we played an integral role in the implementation of online learning. NC Virtual’s Board believes that Bruce Friend is the right person to lead our efforts to create the best Virtual School in the country for North Carolina’s kids.”

Violent video games feed unhealthy ideas to young kids TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) – Tacoma, WA, USA

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold trained on the violent video game Doom to rehearse for the carnage of Columbine. One week before the worst school massacre in American history, I predicted on NBC’s “Today” that the triple school homicide in Paducah, Ky., would be followed by other such killings and that Doom would be the virtual reality rehearsal simulator of choice. Unfortunately, I was correct. After Columbine, the FBI and the Secret Service found that the teen perpetrators in all the then-recent school killings were immersed in violent entertainment, especially violent video games.

His task: Updating schools Boston Globe – United States

Officially, he reports for duty next Tuesday, but Haverhill’s new school chief is already busy thinking up ways to improve the city’s public schools. Introducing Internet-based courses and a magnet school for science and math at the high school are two of the ideas Raleigh Buchanan said he hopes to explore with his new colleagues. Others include developing a strategic plan for the system, grappling with the city’s high dropout rate, and introducing a program for gifted high school students that focuses on international issues.

Blazing a virtual-school trail Corvallis Gazette Times – Corvallis, OR, USA

Oregon’s first online charter school, run by the Scio School District,gets good marks from the mom of one of its students. Jefferson Warner sometimes starts his fourth-grade class in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon. Sometimes, if he’s especially restless, he skips it altogether. The flexibility in the Lebanon boy’s schedule is what his mother, Shawna, loves about Oregon Connections Academy, the “virtual” charter school that’s now part of the Scio School District.Jefferson is one of 692 students — none of them from Scio — who have enrolled so far in the state’s first wholly online public charter school.

Cyber bills are adding up for Venango school districts Oil City Derrick – Oil City, PA, USA

Cyber charter school enrollment has topped 100 this year for the four Venango County public school districts, and while the districts have set aside nearly $1 million to pay the tuition bills, it may not be enough.Combined local enrollment in the cyber schools, which provide instruction to students via the Internet, has jumped by 15 to 112 since last year. About 97 Venango County residents were enrolled in cyber school programs last year, up from about 87 the previous year. [ See all stories on this topic ]

We’d like to hear from cyber students Oil City Derrick – Oil City, PA, USA

Cyber school students do not ride a bus or attend a brick and mortar school, do not take part in a typical gym class or eat lunch in the school cafeteria, and cannot be sent to the office if they are tardy or misbehave.Rather, they “attend” school at home via the Internet. They receive and complete assignments, take quizzes and tests, consult with instructors and “participate” in class discussions, all over the Internet.

Area Schools Weigh Costs And Benefits Yankton Daily Press – Yankton, SD, USA

… In addition, the “Cyber-Soph” program provides about 30 randomly-chosen sophomores with laptops, he said. “Those sophomores work with laptops the school has … [Unable to get complete preview, as site requires free registration]

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