With virtual platform, Alaska high school reverses decline

When Virtual High School Global Consortium, a non-profit organization specializing in collaborative online education and professional development, offered 25 students spots at a reduced price in exchange for one Advanced Placement teacher, Petersburg saw it a as an opportunity to be able to offer their students more diverse classes.

Now Petersburg offer engineering, architecture, art history, and veterinary science, among other classes. Sue Hardin, the school’s English and Spanish teacher, says that she facilitates advanced placement classes for student in some Northeastern schools, as well as that Oklahoma, Washington State, Switzerland, Venezuela and even China.

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Online school program now registering

Registration for second semester at Tacoma Virtual Learning, the online education program for Tacoma Public Schools students, is now open.

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Online education evolves as advances in techology make major impact

More than 70,000 school-age children wake up each morning for class and walk as far as the nearest Web-enabled gadget. If that’s an iPad or laptop, they may not even need to leave their bed.

The students, enrolled in online schools through K12, a Herndon-based company, can still get help from a teacher if they’re stuck, watch instructional demos or participate in class discussion — it’s just all digital.

Founder and chief executive Ron Packard contends that his company does not provide the online education that traditionalists tend to scoff at: isolated students staring at a computer screen, submitting homework to and earning credit from a faceless educator.

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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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