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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Virtual instruction, real learning - DEBBY ABE, The News Tribune
It's 9 a.m. and time for class in the Bogue household in University Place. Nine-year-old Tyler Bogue flips on the Dell computer in his family’s basement classroom and reads about Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution. Later, his 8-year-old sister, Amy, practices two-digit addition at the terminal. Across the ocean in Thailand, Gig Harbor High School exchange student Lia Stewart sits at her host family’s computer to tackle U.S. history – taught by a teacher in Gig Harbor. The students are part of a small but growing trend: online instruction offered through public schools in Washington state.
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