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Thursday, April 28, 2005
Distance learning via Internet more popular in nation's high schools - MAYA SURYARAMAN, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Amos Song, a junior at John F. Kennedy High School in Fremont, Calif., is taking advanced placement calculus. But neither his teacher nor his fellow students are in Fremont. Instead Amos connects to them - in Massachusetts, Peru and elsewhere - via the Internet. "It's fun to get to know your classmates through the Web," said Amos, 15, who has gotten online help on his homework from a student in Virginia. Distance learning, a phenomenon already entrenched in colleges and universities, is now growing explosively in public schools.
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