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Saturday, March 12, 2005
72% of districts will expand distance ed - eSchool News
Nearly three-fourths of public school districts in the United States plan to expand distance-learning programs, the federal government reported March 2. According to the first federal study of the issue (titled Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students), the popularity of distance education has spread from colleges to earlier grades, as students in more than one-third of U.S. school districts take courses over the internet or through video conferences. From social studies and math to English and computer science, thousands of basic courses are being taught in an unconventional way--with the teacher and student in different places.
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