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Friday, March 07, 2008
The reality of online learning schools - Kathy Walsh Nufer, Post-Crescent
The children's desks lined the walls, along with a colorful profusion of books and artwork, textbooks, a vocabulary "word window," world map and a science poster bearing plaster molds of rabbit, raccoon and bear footprints. Sitting atop one table was the computer connecting the children — and their mom and online "learning coach" Paula Van Dyck — to WCA teachers 35 miles away. By 9 a.m., Alex had logged on for a "live lesson" — a Junior Great Books discussion in cyberspace of an African folk tale he read — hosted by a WCA teacher.
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