10.5 Million preK-12 Students Will Attend Classes Online by 2014
According to a new study by the research firm Ambient Insight, the number preK-12 students who will take some or all of their courses online will increase from 2 million to 10 million by 2014. As reported in the Journal, Ambient Insight Chief Research Officer Sam S. Adkins estimates that “…about 450,000 K-12 students attend virtual schools or “cyber” charter schools full-time, while another 1.75 million take some of their classes online. The two groups are still outnumbered by students who take all of their courses in physical classrooms, which Ambient Insight...
Read MoreShrinking School Budgets and Disruptive Innovation
The current recession is having a major impact on public schools as district leaders find their budgets squeezed by shrinking revenues. Administrators in districts all throughout the country are facing the worst funding crisis in decades, and many analysts anticipate next year’s circumstances to be even worse. With the short-term financial outlook for public schools being so bleak, I wonder how these circumstances will affect the way schools educate students. Will these economic conditions change our public schools in a fundamental way? Will America’s schools be forced to embrace...
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