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Mann, Bryan; Li, Wei; Besnoy, Kevin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Online learning for primary and secondary students has expanded significantly in the United States during the last two decades. In addition to the sustained growth of online learning, many schools and districts used online learning to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. As school leaders and policymakers move more students into online courses,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Profiles, Electronic Learning
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
Coy, Kimberly; Miller, Libbi R. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2023
While virtual and online schools for students in grades K-12 gained in popularity before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and served a wide variety of student populations, including students with disabilities during the pandemic virtual teaching became the reluctant norm. As online school sites have begun to welcome students with…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Educational Technology, COVID-19, Pandemics
Kingsbury, Ian – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many American schools to hastily transition to online learning. I assess how the online learning experience of students enrolled in brick and mortar schools that transitioned to online learning in Spring 2020 compared to the experience of students who were already enrolled in virtual schools when the pandemic began.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Schools, Conventional Instruction, COVID-19
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
Horn-Olivito, Heidi; Martinovic, Dragana; Winney, Kelly – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
In this paper, we document elementary school teachers' attitudinal and pedagogical changes during the rapid move from brick-and-mortar to virtual schooling initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We administered four online surveys (in September and October 2020, and in March and June 2021) to determine teachers' perceived challenges and successes in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, School Closing
Walker, Amy W. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
During the Spring 2020 semester, all fifty states in the United States closed schools from in-person instruction due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. When the two Upstate South Carolina school districts in this study reopened in the Fall of 2020, they gave families the option of allowing students to attend newly developed virtual schools which…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Educational Environment, Mathematics Achievement
Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2020
After Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a temporary school closure last March because of COVID-19, leaders at the LEARN Charter School Network got busy thinking about what remote learning would look like; they had a track record of performance to safeguard. Pre-COVID, the 20-year-old Chicago-area charter school network of 10 college-prep K-8…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
Scafidi, Ben – EdChoice, 2023
In March 2022 a random sample of one third of Stride K12 families (37,856) were emailed a survey asking parents a series of questions about their families' experiences in their children's current Stride K12-powered online schools and their experiences in their children's former schools. 1,949 parents completed the survey, and of that total, 1,613…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes, Educational Technology, Virtual Schools
Carpenter, Dick; Dunn, Joshua – Journal of School Choice, 2020
This study examined educational experiences of families under COVID and their schooling decisions in the 2021 school year. Results from a survey of 1743 parents indicate most schools provided educational resources ranging from hardcopy packets to live online instruction. Parents were generally positive about the experience. Parents in private and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Erwin, Ben – Education Commission of the States, 2021
Virtual learning has grown significantly over roughly the last decade and, more recently, was thrust into the spotlight because of the shift to remote instruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 2019-20 school year, full-time virtual schools enrolled more than 330,000 students, and statewide programs provided over 1 million courses,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Virtual Schools, Pandemics, COVID-19
Kingsbury, Ian – EdChoice, 2020
Thousands of American schools shuttered their doors during the second half of the 2019-2020 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most schools that closed their physical campus switched to online learning to conclude the school year. Brick and mortar schools uninitiated to online learning were tasked with adapting teaching practices to a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Virtual Schools
Kentucky Department of Education, 2020
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) recommends that districts consider a variety of alternative models, strategies and schedules for the reopening of public schools for fall 2020. Designing and planning early will be key to a successful reopening. Each school district may have a customized plan for reopening that best fits its students,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Districts, Public Schools
Bueno, Carycruz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has put virtual schooling at the forefront of policy concerns, as millions of children worldwide shift to virtual schooling with hopes of "slowing the spread". Given the emergency shift to online education coupled with the large increase in demand for virtual education over the last decade it is imperative to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses