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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Colorado: Unlimited Learning - Timothy D. Snyder, THE Journal
With its many small and remote districts, Colorado is using online learning to educate kids in every nook and cranny in the state. "Your zip code shouldn’t determine the quality of your education,” declared Eric Feder, director of the Colorado Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, as he kicked off the first meeting of Colorado’s E-Learning Task Force in 2001. Feder challenged the group to design a model of online learning that could be used by all schools to strengthen their educational offerings and close wide gaps in opportunity. The model was to address the spectrum of student need, ranging from credit recovery to accelerated programming, with a focus on collaboration with local schools.
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