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Sturgis, Chris – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2016
This paper explores how an Alaskan school district shifted from a traditional K-12 education system to a personalized, performance-based system, embedded in the culture of the community, which led to increased student achievement. Chugach School District (CSD) first implemented competency education over twenty years ago, paving the way in…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Competency Based Education, Performance Based Assessment
Lines, Patricia M. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
Home-based programs provide opportunities at a level far beyond what a traditional public school program can offer. To stem enrollment losses to homeschooling, or simply to help families interested in home-based option, public schools are enrolling children and sending them home, where they follow the school's curriculum under their parents'…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Home Study, Home Schooling, Parents as Teachers