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Download full textRegion 5 Comprehensive Center, 2023
Districts and schools constantly troubleshoot and mitigate new and ongoing challenges. Rather than addressing each challenge ad hoc, they are looking to adopt a systematic, repeatable process proven to diagnose and respond to challenges efficiently and effectively. One such approach with wide application and use in education is a Networked…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Virtual Schools, Electronic Learning, Barriers
Peer reviewedEbner, Aviva – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2023
Schools are typically highly structured institutions, so any shifts in processes can potentially generate anxiety, confusion, and even anger among staff. As such, when there is frequent change, initiatives often fail to achieve their intended goals. Well-intentioned initiatives can go awry when not consistently implemented correctly by all staff;…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Change Strategies, Reliability, Access to Information
Direct linkPaulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Kansas State Department of Education, 2024
The Kansas Graduate and Dropout Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) calculates and reports the Adjusted Cohort Graduation and Annual Dropout Rates. Sections include: (1) Introduction; (2) Terminology; (3) Data Sources; (4) Graduation Calculations; (5) Dropout Calculation; and (6)…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Home Schooling, Students with Disabilities
Partin, Jeana M.; Derrington, Mary Lynne – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2023
Principal Wilson is a first-year leader of a virtual high school. Following four years as an assistant principal in the brick-and-mortar school, she encounters unanticipated leadership challenges and policy dilemmas. Although discipline issues are nearly nonexistent, remote testing presents an ethical challenge. Moreover, she discovers that…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, High Schools, Principals, Instructional Leadership
Heritage Foundation, 2023
Every child deserves the right to attend a school that can best meet his or her individual learning needs. Where the child lives should not be a limiting factor, and no one school is the best fit for every child who just happens to live nearby. Education-choice policies have the potential to expand education options for students in rural areas.…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Choice, Educational Policy, Private Schools
Kansas State Department of Education, 2022
The Kansas Graduate and Dropout Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) calculates and reports the Adjusted Cohort Graduation and Annual Dropout Rates. Sections include: (1) Introduction; (2) Terminology; (3) Data Sources; (4) Graduation Calculations; (5) Dropout Calculation; and (6)…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Home Schooling, Students with Disabilities
Weiner, Steven – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
KaiPod Learning is a for-profit company offering students enrolled in online schools the opportunity to learn in a physical location with adult supervision, academic support, and extracurricular enrichment. Tuition is attendance based, with the option of students going two, three, or five days per week. This report discusses how KaiPod Learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, In Person Learning, Virtual Schools
Young, Julie; Donovan, Bill – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2022
After schools closed in March of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students, families and teachers had to shift learning from in-class to online. But the switch to remote learning was hasty and disorganized in many school districts. Families struggled with the technology and coordinating schedules at home, while teachers tried to shift the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2019
The impacts of the 2018 elections were felt in the 2019 state legislative sessions across the country. While charter school supporters continued to rack up legislative victories on increasing funding and facilities support, strengthening accountability, and protecting autonomy, they also faced political climates in several states that were…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Facilities
Smarick, Andy – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2022
America has a long history of small-school environments, such as one-room schoolhouses and homeschools. But in recent years, other models have developed, giving students more intimate settings for learning and enabling their families to play a larger role in their schooling. Microschools are a leading example of this growing sector that also…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Educational Policy, State Policy, Home Schooling
Tanner, Michelle; Harrison, Nathan E.; Billings, Adam – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2022
In Utah, deaf and hard of hearing elementary school students can access their education--in American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken and written English--from their devices at home. Many secondary students can access online coursework as well. This is thanks to a four-year project undertaken by the Utah School for the Deaf (USD). The goal was to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Special Schools, American Sign Language
Young, Julie; Donovan, William – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2022
Digital learning, the use of computers and the internet to study courses taught in the classroom, is viewed by many educators as a breakthrough to helping those at-risk students stay in school and earn their diplomas. The flexibility afforded by digital learning, with students working on their own time at their own pace, is a way for students to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, At Risk Students, Online Courses
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
Instruction plays a critical role in student success. However, most studies of teachers' effects on student learning focus on face-to-face settings. Some aspects of online courses, such as the choice of synchronous or asynchronous instruction and the course structure, might reduce teachers' influence on their students. For example, online courses…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Biology, Secondary School Science, High School Students
Tian, Jian; Mao, Wei; Liao, Linchun; Zhou, Xinyi – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
The use of increasingly popularized information technology to improve education poverty and then promote the balanced development of education has become the development trend of world education. On the road to poverty alleviation, China has firmly grasped information technology to encourage school reform in areas with scarce educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Online Courses, Educational Technology
