Accelerate Education Announces Next Generation of Online Courses, Credit Recovery and Blended Digital Curriculum to Schools

Accelerate Education, a new provider of K-12 online courses, credit recovery and blended learning curriculum announces new options for virtual schools, credit recovery programs and schools offering supplemental digital curriculum in the classroom.

Accelerate Education now offers a broad and rich catalog of online courses, credit recovery and digital curriculum in grades Kindergarten through 12th for the 2011-2012 school year.

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NEW Walla Walla connects with online school

WALLA WALLA – Walla Walla Public Schools has partnered with a St. Louis-based online learning firm to offer online courses to local students.

The district began offering classes through Greenways Academy at the start of this school year, following an initial trial run with some students over the summer. Any student – even those not in Walla Walla schools – can elect to take one or more classes to supplement coursework, to make up classes, or simply as an alternative to traditional schooling.

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Online Courses Offer Options, Support for Homeschooling Families

As more and more families seek alternatives to traditional school, we’re seeing an increase in students blending homeschool and online education. Every family and situation is different, but regardless of the circumstance, a tough decision has to be made when homeschooled students enter their high school years. In the past, the choices have typically been a) continue homeschooling through high school or b) start at/return to a traditional brick & mortar school.

Now, thanks to public online schools, like Insight Schools, families have a choice that offers different options for student-centered learning that didn’t exist just a few years ago – eliminating the either/or choice of the past. Insight Schools and other online education providers are allowing students to enroll full-time as well as part-time. A full-time option allows students to take a full course-load in the environment they’re accustomed to and still have their parent by their side, while part-time enrollment gives them the option of taking a class or two while still receiving instruction from their parents for their remaining courses.

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Pass Christian University Introduces New Online Empowering Students With Disabilities Course

Seattle, WA — (SBWIRE) — 07/29/2010 — Pass Christian University (PCU) has a program that makes it easy to take high-quality, noncredit online courses. PCU (http://www.pcu.edu) has partnered with ed2go to offer hundreds of online, instructor-facilitated courses and is pleased to announce the launch of “Empowering Students With Disabilities.”

Participants in this course will gain confidence in working with special needs students as they master strategies for promoting these learners’ academic, behavioral, and social skills. Simulations and real-life stories will give them a firsthand look at what it’s like to be a learner with special needs.

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