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Monday, June 20, 2005
Summer School Goes to the Beach: Virtual classes give high school kids flexibility - Anne McGrath, US News
Ingenious teenagers can find every manner of reason to take a pass on summer school: There's the two-week family vacation in the middle of the four-week session, not to mention the potential for a day job scooping ice cream--or the fear that they might bomb at cramming a semester's worth of work into a month. In the digital age, however, none is reason enough. The rapid spread of online learning at the secondary level--experts estimate that more than half of all school districts offer some virtual coursework, up from just 30 percent two years ago--is now creating "anywhere, anytime" flexibility for summer students, too. While the total numbers are still small, many hundreds of students around the country will be signing on in the next week or two for everything from U.S. history to human space exploration.
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