Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Saturday, January 19, 2008
Texas Virtual Academy lets kids attend public school online - Karen Ayres Smith, The Dallas Morning News
Going to school now means going online for Victoria McClure-Esqueda. The Irving 8-year-old is one of hundreds of students across North Texas who have enrolled at the Texas Virtual Academy at Southwest, an online learning public school that opened to area students for the first time in 2007. The students work at home and study a curriculum created by a contracted company, but they can earn the same credits as students who attend any other public school in the state. For Victoria, online learning means studying some advanced fourth-grade courses and, perhaps more important, not slacking off.

 



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