Experience Online education, particularly at the high school level, is a fast-growing trend in the United States. Part 2 will look at several new and distinctive virtual high schools and examine the concerns of some of the program's critics. He is in a position to know. Now in its third year, Electronic High School offers eight courses. Twenty more are under development.
Plans call for the addition of music history and appreciation and art history and appreciation.
Enrollment in EHS at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year was three times that of a year ago, Siddoway said, while enrollment in the other two distance education programs remained constant. Tips for New Virtual High School Programs Administrators at four virtual high schools share their expertise. He learned the hard way that maintaining servers is not a job for a virtual school program, Droste told Education World. Now, although the program is headquartered in Massachusetts, the high school resides on servers in Houston, Texas. Young advises new virtual high schools to start doing some type of external evaluation early on and to keep evaluating.