Six college applications once seemed like a lot. Submitting eight was a mark of great ambition. For a growing number of increasingly anxious high school seniors, figures like that now sound like just a starting point.
Is your state keeping pace?
Getting Smart
By Jessica Slusser
This week at the iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium, the Evergreen Education Group released their 2014 Keeping Pace With K-12 Digital Learning Report. Their 11th annual report tracks online and blended learning policy, practice and landscape across the 50 states. With the continued increase in outsourced jobs and more of our careers becoming automated, it is of great importance that we innovate education and create a 21st century learning environment and experiences for all students.
State’s first virtual charter school is latest addition to changing education landscape
Written by Rep. Amy Volk
Central Maine.com
The convergence of technology and school choice is opening new doors for Maine’s public school students, presenting them with learning opportunities that never before have been available in this state. What is happening is nothing short of an education revolution, and we are all better off for it.
2014 Oregon Candidate Guide
The Oregon Virtual Public Schools Alliance circulated a questionnaire to the candidates for Governor and for the State Senate and State House. Please click here to see candidate responses to our questionnaire.
'A different kind of learning experience'
Written by Jillian Daley
Lake Oswego Review
Online schools in Oregon are growing, but educators worry about how students learn and their opportunity to socialize with peers
Lake Oswego resident Steve Munt pulled his daughter, Jamie, from Lakeridge Junior High when she was in sixth grade. She was bullied, he didn’t feel his 11-year-old daughter was safe at school, and that’s all he has to say about that.