Online Schools Can Make Students Feel Isolated
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by ASEE
As online high schools spread, educators are ramping up efforts to counter the social isolation that some students experience, according to the Wall Street Journal. At the same time, sociologists and child psychologists are examining how online schooling might hinder, or help, the development of social skills.
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New Jersey teachers have found a surprising way to keep students engaged and successful, according to Edutopia: They let underachieving youngsters get frustrated by math.
Students are more likely to enroll in college if their federal financial aid application is simplified and if they get help filling it out, Education Week reports.
Nineteen Houston Independent School District teachers are being paid $20,000 over two years to take part in a national study addressing several crucial questions: Can teachers who are standouts at good public schools get the same results from students at troubled campuses? And if so, what incentives will draw them there, and will they stay?
Experts convened by the nation’s governors and state schools chiefs have proposed a set of math and English skills students should master before high school graduation, the first step toward what advocates hope will become common standards driving instruction in classrooms from coast to coast, according to the Washington Post.
Forty seven schools this year joined Virtual High School, a Maynard, Mass.-based nonprofit consortium that offers online courses, bringing the total number of participating middle and high schools to 419, the Boston Globe reports.
Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early learning and care programs that serve children from birth through age 5, according to the New York Times.
A Chinese-language immersion program begun 25 years ago in San Francisco ranks as one of the district’s shining stars, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
