Panel: Oregon’s publicly funded online schools should stay open (The Oregonian)
But, for now, no new statewide online schools can open, and Connections Academy and Oregon Virtual Academy are capped at about 2,750 students total
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For-Profit Universities Want Some Respect (Fast Company Magazine)
PARTNERS “People who have negative comments about online schools are being old-fashioned,” says former GE CEO Jack Welch, above. He has invested $2 million — and his own name — in the Jack Welch Management Institute, an MBA program at Chancellor University, a for-profit school in Cleveland, which is part of the education portfolio put together by investor Michael Clifford, left. | Photographs …
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For-Profit Universities Want Some Respect (Fast Company Magazine)
PARTNERS “People who have negative comments about online schools are being old-fashioned,” says former GE CEO Jack Welch, above. He has invested $2 million — and his own name — in the Jack Welch Management Institute, an MBA program at Chancellor University, a for-profit school in Cleveland, which is part of the education portfolio put together by investor Michael Clifford, left. | Photographs …
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Attendance at online schools is booming, but there’s sometimes friction with brick-and-mortar schools, administrators … (The Patriot-News)
Aregular school day at the school on Crums Mill Road in Lower Paxton Twp. has first-grade teacher Janae Cardel logging into a computer screen and employing hats, puppets and “special guest characters” to teach her students things such as how to count in tens.
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Attendance at online schools is booming, but there’s sometimes friction with brick-and-mortar schools, administrators … (The Patriot-News)
Aregular school day at the school on Crums Mill Road in Lower Paxton Twp. has first-grade teacher Janae Cardel logging into a computer screen and employing hats, puppets and “special guest characters” to teach her students things such as how to count in tens.
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