Talk:Online school

message: I see a lot of references to the Florida Virtual School in here. I tried to clean it up without deleting too much content, but it seems to me that this page was created for promotional reasons, and needs some revamping. Does anyone else agree with me? --Austinsimcox 21:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I came across both these articles, and they're really both about the same thing, so I think cyberschool should be merged into this article. GreenJoe 16:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cyberschool

message: I edited the cyberschool page some time ago and provided several scholarly references. They have been deleted. I presume from the discussion here that the practitioners of K-12 distance learning are considered self promoting. Not so. Most are state agencies; but there are corporate sponsors that provide repositories of recent research. This article currently has none.
BTW a cybershool is full time K-12 online learning and a virtual school is supplementary. Why are there non-scholars with clear political biases editing more qualified editors? 
http://dbbearden.googlepages.com/links  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.253.71.225 (talk) 23:28, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  cyberschools and virtual schools are not the same thing 

message: I haven't got time to make an sub-article right now, but in the UK a Virtual School is a means whereby a local authority maintains oversight of "Looked After Children" under its corporate parenting responsibilities, through a number of designated teachers under the authority of a head-teacher, co-ordinating provision for the needs of such children in their own "orndinary" schools.  Kevin McE (talk) 11:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK use of phrase "Virtual School" 

message: I've suggested that this article and virtual university be merged into online degree.  This would overcome deficiencies in all three articles.--Nowa (talk) 11:48, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge [[online degree]]

message: This article may be helpful. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/education/students-of-virtual-schools-are-lagging-in-proficiency.html
Students of Online Schools Are Lagging
By JENNY ANDERSON
Published: January 6, 2012 
The number of students in virtual schools run by educational management organizations rose sharply last year, according to a new report being published Friday, and far fewer of them are proving proficient on standardized tests compared with their peers in other privately managed charter schools and in traditional public schools. 
About 116,000 students were educated in 93 virtual schools — those where instruction is entirely or mainly provided over the Internet — run by private management companies in the 2010-11 school year, up 43 percent from the previous year, according to the report being published by the National Education Policy Center, a research center at the University of Colorado. About 27 percent of these schools achieved “adequate yearly progress,” the key federal standard set forth under the No Child Left Behind act to measure academic progress. By comparison, nearly 52 percent of all privately managed brick-and-mortar schools reached that goal, a figure comparable to all public schools nationally.
--Nbauman (talk) 22:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  NYT story 

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