The movement toward improving education today in the US includes a strong focus on digital learning, an approach that involves a myriad of delivery mechanisms via online tools for students, no matter where they live or attend school. Online learning is opening up classrooms to the world. While not for all children, online public schools are providing NEW options for students and NEW choices for parents in public education.
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Letter: Seasoned online teachers can share skills with others
April 9, 2020When we hire new teachers at Ohio Connections Academy, we provide many hours of profe ...
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Utah Online School offers help and flexibility to students and parents
April 9, 2020With schools closed and social distancing the new normal, parents are scrambling to k ...
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Parents become teachers overnight in St. Louis area schools
April 8, 2020At the language immersion charter school in downtown St. Louis, administrators sent a ...
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Letter: Schools should have closed completely. Teaching online only widens the achievement gap.
April 8, 2020As a school psychologist with 40-plus years experience, I am distressed by decisions ...
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Maine says schools should plan to keep classrooms closed for rest of academic year
April 8, 2020Maine’s commissioner of education is recommending that schools across the state ...
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Local PA Cyber School Parent Shares Online Learning Tips
April 8, 2020Dolak started cyber schooling her daughter three years ago. "Definitely trial and err ...
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Opinion: Why virtual learning has a future in the coronavirus age
April 8, 2020During the initial weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, many high school students in Co ...
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Opinion: Why are cybercharter schools treated as a threat, not savior, amid shutdowns?
April 8, 2020Pennsylvania parents who view online education as a viable alternative to conventiona ...
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As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out
April 7, 2020Teachers at some schools across the country report that less than half of their stude ...
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Opinion: School’s online, but high-tech bells and whistles can’t replace good teaching
April 7, 2020The current crisis is pushing us all to think about how to do distance education diff ...
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Launching online learning at L.A. schools during coronavirus is ‘akin to landing on the moon
April 7, 2020In a sign that the digital divide may be narrowing among Los Angeles public high scho ...
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Nevada Interrupted: As shift to online schooling underscores digital divide, Cox expands free intern
April 7, 2020Many Nevadans are adjusting to the proliferation of COVID-19 by practicing social dis ...
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92,000 DPS Students Transition To Remote Learning Tuesday
April 7, 2020Spring break is over for students at Denver Public Schools. The district will begin r ...
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Savannah schools meet challenges with online learning due to COVID-19
April 7, 2020What was thought to be a temporary change is all but permanent now with all K-12 bric ...
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Putting Rivalries Aside, Media, Education and Tech Giants Come Together (CER in the news)
April 6, 2020Under normal circumstances, companies like Time for Kids, Scholastic and Khan Academy ...
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How online learning may be more than a stopgap in the US
April 6, 2020What changes to the way children are educated might come after the current pandemic? ...
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What does virtual learning look like for a special education teacher?
April 6, 2020While there continue to be hiccups, Infante-Green has repeatedly praised teachers for ...
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Alaska’s new, Florida-based virtual school is not sitting well with some educators
April 6, 2020As Alaska educators scramble to adjust lessons to the new reality of online teaching, ...
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Now more than ever, Houston’s ‘digital divide’ imperils children’s education
April 6, 2020Districts throughout the region are scrambling to equip tens of thousands of children ...
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Some Pittsburgh-area school districts were prepared for unexpected shutdown
April 6, 2020Elizabeth-Forward Superintendent Todd Keruskin said the district has only missed one ...
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How NYC moved the country’s largest school district online during the coronavirus pandemic
April 6, 2020Over the past two weeks, teachers, students and parents in NYC have begun using onlin ...
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Parents and Schools Are Struggling to Care for Kids With Special Needs
April 3, 2020For most parents and teachers across the United States, school closures as a result o ...
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Virtual Education: the New Normal During the Coronavirus Pandemic
April 3, 2020But while a relatively small proportion of American students are accustomed to virtua ...
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Universal charter schools unveil online learning plan
April 3, 2020Universal Companies Family of Schools is distributing 2,500 Chromebooks to its studen ...
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Alaska establishes new statewide online school staffed by a Florida education provider
April 3, 2020Alaska education officials this week announced a new statewide virtual school, the re ...
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Thousands of Philly students are stuck at home without internet after coronavirus closed schools
April 3, 2020As the coronavirus crisis shuts down city schools, thousands of students in Philadelp ...
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All K-12 schools in Indiana will move to online learning for the remainder of the academic year
April 3, 2020All K-12 schools in Indiana will deliver remote instruction for the remainder of the ...
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California Schools Give Laptops To Students As Districts Prepare For ‘Distance Learning’
April 3, 2020After nearly all schools in California shut down in March, many teachers and administ ...
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St. Joseph Catholic School teachers using online options during school closure
April 3, 2020Due to the world-wide Covid-19 virus pandemic, Gov. Tim Walz announced on March 15 th ...
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Countries Face an Online Education Learning Curve
April 2, 2020With everyone from preschoolers to doctoral candidates suddenly forced to stay home d ...