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Education Stock Deserves to Go to Head of Class
Capella offers 950 online courses and proper degrees in pragmatic fields like business, information technology and health services. First-quarter results for the company, reported May 1, show enrollment surging 23% vs. a year ago, to 23,496 “learners” as the company likes to call them.– Smart Money

Insight School Offers Online Education to Address Challenges Facing California Parents and Students
Public education in California faces one of its most challenging periods, with large state budget cuts, high dropout rates and possible restrictions on homeschooling confronting educators, parents and students. A fully online public high school provides a powerful approach for addressing these challenges in Southern California. — PR Newswire

Colorado Virtual High School Launches
Colorado’s Julesburg School District has partnered with Insight Schools to launch a new online virtual public high school that’s being offered tuition-free to students throughout the state. The new virtual school, Insight School of Colorado, will launch its first semester in August, with course selection taking place this month. — T.H.E. Journal

Michigan Embraces Electronic Transcripts
Historically, Michigan State scans paper transcripts as it receives them, then stores the transcript information electronically. But even with that system, Cook said, “we still end up pushing [paper] through the office during the entire process.” The Connect! system enables the university to accept an electronic transcript when a student applies from a ConnectEdu-affiliated high school, thus eliminating the paper process for the most part. – Campus Technology  

Graduate School, USDA Standardizes on Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for E-learning
The Graduate School, USDA has standardized on Acrobat Connect Pro, a Web conferencing and e-learning platform from Adobe Systems. The school is a self-sustaining government entity created 87 years ago by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide adult continuing education. — Campus Technology