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Friday, August 26, 2005
Online tutors offer students round-the-clock assistance - MARK CHEDIAK, The Washington Post
When students in Leslie Chernila’s English class at the Art Institute of Washington write an essay about the work of Garrison Keillor, she has them send it off to a critic halfway across the country before turning it in. The paper soon returns, complete with comments about structure and word choice. The service, offered by Washington-based Smarthinking Inc., is part of a growing educational trend that has millions of students logging on for help with reading, writing and arithmetic. Once a dot-com pipe dream, online education is now maturing into a viable market. More than 2.6 million U.S. students were expected to study online through courses and tutoring last fall, up from 1.9 million in 2003, according to the Sloan Consortium, an online research group.
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