SC education panel launches website to evaluate schools
A state education panel has created a database on the Internet it hopes will allow people to better evaluate South Carolina’s public schools. The Education Oversight Committee’s new online database allows viewers to search for schools based on several criteria, including performance ratings, number of students and poverty levels. It also includes searches for percentage of teachers with advanced degrees, teacher retention rates and per-pupil spending. — WISTV.com
We’re All Online Now Even Mum and Dad
In the UK, students at Redcar Community College (and 140 parents) signed up to receive a laptop thanks to the North East e-Learning Foundation. The laptops mean parents can monitor their child’s progress, making them more engaged in the educational process and even allowing them to track such things as attendance and attainment records. — Red Orbit
District eyes expanding online school
The Lake Havasu Unified School District will explore expanding its Havasu Online program by outsourcing some or all of its instruction. The rationale for expanding the online school is that the district could significantly increase its revenue from the program without increasing costs. Lake Havasu Unified is one of only seven school districts in the state that has an Arizona Department of Education sanctioned online learning or “technology assisted project-based instruction” program. — Today’s News-Herald
Reaction to School Becoming Education Center
A vacant elementary school is going high tech. The City of Lansing announced plans to turn the former Holmes Street school into a state of the art learning facility. Activities will be geared toward school aged kids for little or no cost. The idea is to prepare them for high-tech careers. — WLNS
District makes plans for virtual classroom
As early as next school year, administrators in the Quakertown Community School District of Pennsylvania are hoping to begin offering a program known as Virtual High School, which allows students to take online classes in subjects and electives they would never ordinarily be exposed to. — Philly Burbs
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