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District Woos Summer School Students
The Erie Times News: Teachers, staff and administrators
will be visiting the homes of elementary and middle school students who could benefit from summer school, as
part of a targeted effort to get more students to attend the free, voluntary program.
July 2008 | Read More »
No More Pencils, No More Books
Apex Learning: Forget textbooks and handouts. Forget No. 2 pencils. And if you’re looking for curricula for science or English class, you’ll need to go online. At VOISE Academy, a new high school opening this fall in Chicago, classwork is guided and shaped by the tech tools of the twenty-first century, providing an intriguing glimpse at what schools may look like in the future.
July 2008 | Read More »
Christensen's Classroom Coup
Forbes.com: Disrupting Class, a new book by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson, applies Christensen’s now famous theories of “disruptive” change to the field of education.
July 2008 | Read More »
E-Learning Gets Real
Technology & Learning: When does an idea evolve from faddish to fundamental?
July 2008 | Read More »
District Seeking to Cut Dropout Rate
The San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego high school students in jeopardy of failing to meet graduation requirements might get sent to the coach's office in the fall – for remediation, not laps and push-ups.
July 2008 | Read More »
Technology Reshapes America's Classrooms
Reuters: BOSTON, Massachusetts - From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves.
July 2008 | Read More »
North Texas Districts' Online Summer School Clicks for Teens
Dallas Morning News: Squeezing summer school between a job as a lifeguard and a community college class means a busy schedule for 18-year-old Kody Jackson.
July 2008 | Read More »
A Helping Hand Scholastic's Tech Tools Blog
Scholastic: What can you do to help struggling students except give them lots of one-on-one time and attention to prevent them from joining the 1 million high school students every year who don’t graduate? Apex Learning’s new digital courses can help and keep them on track for graduation.
July 2008 | Read More »
Virtual Schools a Boon to Delaware Students
The News Journal: As a junior at Sussex Technical High School, the 17-year-old has participated in her school's choir for three years. But to find room in her class schedule for two years of a foreign language -- a requirement for most four-year colleges and universities -- she was going to have to drop choir.
April 2008 | Read More »
Canby Gives Students a Chance at E-learning
The Oregonian: Canby High School students will again have access this summer to the district's e-learning Academy, a technology based tutoring program that begins its fifth year in June.
May 2008 | Read More »
Online Options for Credit Recovery Widen
Education Week: Districts turn to commercial providers and virtual schools to help students make it to graduation.
May 2008 | Read More »
Board Hears about Virtual Learning
The Pilot: Principals for the four Moore County high schools gave members of the Board of Education a glimpse at the
future of learning Monday night.
May 2008 | Read More »
Algebra: Changing the Equation
District Administration: In 2006, 2 percent of the high school students in the Garland Independent School District dropped out, a percentage that had been holding steady for several years but was still below the state average of 4 percent. One might expect that Garland school officials would be comfortable with the situation. That was not the case.
May 2008 | Read More »
Texas District Battles its Dropout Problem
Garland Independent School District: In 2006, 2 percent of the high school students in the Garland Independent School District dropped out, a percentage that had been holding steady for several years but was still below the state average of 4 percent. One might expect that Garland school officials would be comfortable with the situation.
March 2008 | Read More »
OCSD 4 Expanding Classes on Computers
The Times and Democrat: The Orangeburg Consolidated School District 4 board has approved renewing and expanding a program
that allows students to take classes over the computer.
March 2008 | Read More »
State, District Policies Limit Access to Online Learning
Education Daily: Research shows that state and district policies are not keeping pace with the advances in online learning. For example, some states still require teachers to be physically present in the classroom with students, whereas others allow virtual classrooms.
February 2008 | Read More »
County Dropout Rate Falls
Eden Daily News: RALEIGH - Though North Carolina Public Schools reported a rise in student dropout rates in the 2006-
07 school year, preliminary tallies taken in late 2007 show Rockingham County's dropout numbers
decreased.
February 2008 | Read More »
Online Courses Broaden Access
Government Video: High school students need the advantage of advance placement, foreign language, and other preparatory college courses...
July 2007 | Read More »
PRESS RELEASES
Apex Learning New Digital Curriculum
Empowers Struggling Students
Apex Learning: SEATTLE, WA — March 19, 2008 — Apex Learning®, the leading provider of digital curriculum for differentiated instruction, today announced new course offerings designed to meet the needs of struggling high school students –- and keep them on track for graduation. The company’s standards-based digital curriculum has been redesigned to provide extensive support for students in credit recovery, dropout recovery, remediation, intervention, and alternative school programs.
March 2008 | Read More »