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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Web lets schools offer more courses- Maya Suryaraman, Mercury News
Amos Song, a junior at John F. Kennedy High School in Fremont, 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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