Distance education growing in popularity
Mar 5th, 2005From the Seattle Post Intelligencer …
The popularity of distance education has spread from colleges to earlier grades, as students in more than one-third of U.S. school districts take courses over the Internet or through video conferences, according to the first federal study of the issue.
From social studies and math to English and computer science, thousands of basic courses are being taught in an unconventional way – with the teacher and student in different places.
The main reason is that districts want to offer courses that students can't get at their own schools, according to the Education Department study released Wednesday.
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