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Online courses clicking as hot trend for students - Peter Bailey, Miami Herald
A growing number of Miami-Dade middle and high school students are picking up credits online, mirroring a national trend as educators debate the effectiveness of cyberlearning. The road to Tel Aviv borders on desolation, bleak desert terrain traversed by ungodly reptiles in the Holy Land. But Elon Richman, a 16-year-old junior at Miami Beach Senior High, didn't have time for exploring. He was hurrying to get to a relative's house in the city -- because his Spanish homework was due in Coral Gables in a few hours. ''If someone at the house has Internet access, I can do my assignment for my instructor to grade in the morning,'' he said. Elon is one of about 200 high school students in the district who are taking online courses this summer through the Miami-Dade Virtual School, a franchise of the state-funded program. Virtual school allows students to take more than 80 classes -- including advanced placement courses -- while on summer vacation or during the regular school year.
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