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Their View: Fixing our schools and the money to do it

July 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Paul Gessing finds it hard to believe that “parents and the public are apathetic about improving educational results”. He believes it’s more likely that the government monopoly “stifle[s] choice, lead[s] to a feeling of helplessness and lack of empowerment among parents and their children, and lead[s] to a belief that the best we can do is the status quo.”

Throw in school choice, rigor, competition, technology (online schooling) and an admirable reminder that we focus on the needs of the children and the battle is joined. This would be a good time for you to consult the Sun-News (or pay 50 cents for access to my files) and read both columns before comes the definitive word.

You’re a pretty sharp bunch. You have to decipher the lot of us assailing you from the pages of the Sun-News, but there are still a few of you to whom I feel an obligation to clarify things regarding education. That would be those afflicted by Bill O’Reilly and his ilk, who translate a brief, personal experience in the classroom into a much broader expertise.

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Cash-strapped states consider virtual classes, despite lack of research

January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

“The research is in a very nascent condition right now and it’s well behind what’s getting implemented,” said Means, who is the policy director of SRI International, a non-profit research center. “Things are getting implemented because they seem reasonable to people and in some cases because there’s a kind of a cost saving goal or an access goal for kids.”

Idaho, for example, has offered virtual classes for years because that instructional approach gives kids in its many rural communities greater access to courses. Still, the state has never made such courses mandatory, prior to the present proposal. Only Tennessee, Michigan, and Alabama require students to either take an online course or have an “online experience” in a class to graduate. In New Mexico, students must either take an honors, dual-credit or distance-learning class. That’s still a far cry from requiring kids to take 20 percent of their courses online, which is what is being proposed in Idaho.

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School Choice Offers Opportunity for the Teaching Profession

January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

As technology changes and evolves, the world of education and teaching will undoubtedly change. Teachers across the country must stay ahead of the curve.

Although some teachers and the unions see school choice as foreboding for the public school outlook, school choice encompasses empowerment for the parent to choose an environment that employs teachers in all arenas. A new era has been ushered in for education. Once limited to rigid traditional school terms and schedules, teachers are employed in traditional public schools, charters, private schools, religious schools, and online schools just to name a few. Educators will in turn have choices themselves when deciding when, where and how to teach kids.

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Best Online High Schools gets new design

December 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Best Online High Schools has now been updated with a new design and new features. This new version will continue to provide you with the best information available on the Internet about online high schools.

Come take a look!

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