'Hybrid' Charter Schools on the Rise

While the setting evokes an older era, the San Francisco Flex Academy charter school is thoroughly modern. Though the students attend school every day, their courses are offered through an online curriculum accessed through students’ laptop computers. But Flex Academy also has teachers of core subjects—English, history, math, and science—on site, who meet with small groups of students throughout the day to troubleshoot areas where students are lagging, based on information collected by online assessments.

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"Virtual School" in Lodi Lets Students Study from Home

Instead of struggling in the classroom, Shea does her work at her own pace, in the comfort of her home.  Her mom says the change has made a huge difference for their family. "Just having control over your child and her grades,” says Jackie, “This is easier for me. I can find out her grade each week."

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Cyber-school students: Pentagon snubs our service

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Students graduating from the growing ranks of online high schools are running into a hurdle if their goal is to join the military: The Pentagon doesn't want many recruits with
non-traditional diplomas.

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Online Learning Begins to Explode into the Mainstream in Blended Schools

Across America a skyrocketing number of K-12 students are getting their education in blended-learning environments. Over 4 million K-12 students took at least one online course in 2010, according to Ambient Insight, and this space is growing now by a five-year compound annual growth rate of 43 percent—much faster than the growth of charter schooling or other K-12 education reforms, for example.

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Las Vegas teacher takes to Facebook to get message out about fighting back against cuts to Nevada education

Besides being a teacher and a father of four daughters, Mark Jimenez is trying to save funding for education in Nevada. Jimenez started a Facebook group, Nevadans for Funding Education in Nevada, to rally support for his cause, which he said should be everyone's cause.

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For AP Students, a New Classroom Is Online

They get as much school work done in 3½ hours as it takes eight to do" in a traditional school day, Mr. Kirkpatrick says. Kayla Kirkpatrick says she likes moving through the material at her own pace, in contrast with a traditional classroom where "sometimes I'm really bored, and other times it is moving way too fast for me.

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Some students turning to the Georgia Cyber Academy to attend public school

For the Dewyea's it started with their older brother Luke. He did not like the traditional classroom setting so the family enrolled him in the Georgia Cyber Academy program. It's a charter school for parents looking for a different option.

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School sees parents as partners

At first glance Hoosier Academies looks like an Internet-based school for computer geeks. But a closer look at the Indianapolis-based charter school reveals an intriguing answer to the challenge of getting parents to partner with schools by ensuring that their children are ready to learn and do their homework.

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2011 NSSA Hawaii Regional Surfing Championships

Hawaii Technology Academy (HTA) student Finn M. was recently claimed both the Open Mini Groms & Explorer Super Grom Regional titles in the 2011 NSSA Hawaii Regional Surfing Championships.

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