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		<title>Webinar NEXT WEEK: Follow the Money &#8211; Making Sense of the Stimulus and Ed Tech &#124; July 15</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/webinar-next-week-follow-the-money-making-sense-of-the-stimulus-and-ed-tech-july-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This showed up in my inbox today, and since I recall there being opportunities for K-12 online learning programs in the United States to take advantage of this I figured I would share it here now (and post a reminder the morning of).

























Follow the Money:
Making Sense of the Stimulus &#38; EdTech 
NEXT WEEK! Wednesday July [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4518&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next?</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/whats-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[40th anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apollo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting idea that I wanted to share with folks to see what their thoughts were on the topic.  I received this e-mail from my university the other day and thought I would share to get your thoughts.
The Office of the Vice President for Research at Wayne State University is participating in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4513&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online Education &#8211; In Ontario</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/online-education-in-ontario/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this e-mail a few days ago and I wanted to share it with folks and see if any others had feedback.
Thank-you very much for your many and varied contributions to online learning!! I have been reading some of your reviews, specifically geared to the K12 audience, and have also listened to some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4509&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SIIA Survey Finds U.S. Making Some Progress Toward</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/siia-survey-finds-u-s-making-some-progress-toward/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/siia-survey-finds-u-s-making-some-progress-toward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I posted a number of messages encouraging folks to participate in this survey (see Reminder: SIIA Vision K20 Survey Ends on June 15th for most recent example), it seems only appropriate that I post the results.  This taken from one of the iNACOL forums.
SIIA Survey Finds U.S. Making Some Progress Toward the Vision K-20 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4506&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Models Of Innovation In Learning Online</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/report-models-of-innovation-in-learning-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried to post this late yesterday afternoon, but my Internet went down while I was writing it.
Since yesterday was all about reports, I figured I&#8217;d finish off today with one as well.  Earlier this week the following came across my Facebook newsfeed.
The report, while not strictly about K-12, does present some interesting models that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4501&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Schooling In The News</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/virtual-schooling-in-the-news-185/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning with the ASCD SmartBrief.
Oregon House votes to cap the expansion of online charter schools for 2 years
Statesman-Journal (Salem, Ore.)
Report: Schools are not meeting student demand for online learning
Students are looking to take more courses online, but a lack of funding and teacher training is preventing schools from offering enough online learning options, according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4396&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Funnies</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/friday-funnies-27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back from a few week break, the Friday Funnies&#8230;  As always, the weekly funnies feature courtesy of Darren at TADO.

Foniks
Horse Sense
Deer
Dyslexia
Needed

Until next week…
 Tagged: cartoons, comics, cyber school, education, high school, virtual school      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4485&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USDOE Is Developing New Educational Technology Plan</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/usdoe-is-developing-new-educational-technology-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another item posted a few days ago to one of the iNACOL forums.

iNACOL encourages all members to contribute to the following&#8230;
The U.S. Department of Education is developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education. The plan will provide a set of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4481&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana Legislators Finally Pass State Budget &#8211; Includes New Virtual School Pilot</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/indiana-legislators-finally-pass-state-budget-includes-new-virtual-school-pilot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was posted a few days ago to one of the iNACOL forums.
Legislators finally pass state budget &#8212; 2 years, $27.8B
BY MARY BETH SCHNEIDER • AND BILL RUTHHART • JULY 1, 2009
http://www.jconline.com/article/20090701/NEWS02/907010327
INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Indiana&#8217;s lawmakers passed a $27.8 billion, two-year budget Tuesday that supporters touted as a triumph in a recession.
Critics said it came at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4475&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Word About Reports</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-quick-word-about-reports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading through my Bloglines today and came across a very entertaining entry entitled Time Well Missed by Things from my mind&#8230;.  On a day when I&#8217;ve talked about two reports, I thought this paragraph was quite fitting:
You missed the release of several self-serving reports by organizations that use the big convention to show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4494&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US DOE Report: Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/us-doe-report-evaluation-of-evidence-based-practices-in-online-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/us-doe-report-evaluation-of-evidence-based-practices-in-online-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another one of these reports that have hit me from a number of directions in the past few days.  I suppose the first was from one of the iNACOL forums with this message:
Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4487&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Push for Free Online Courses</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/u-s-push-for-free-online-courses/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/u-s-push-for-free-online-courses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is more of an informational item, as there is already a lot of commentary out there already on this issue.  It came through my Facebook with this item in my news feed:
Which links to a news item from Inside Higher Education.  It has also generated some discussion in the blogsphere, for example:

Coming Dangerously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4477&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Students Want More Online Learning</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/report-students-want-more-online-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/report-students-want-more-online-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[K-12 online learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning in the 21st Century]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trends Update]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will appear in the &#8220;Virtual Schooling in the News&#8221; feature on Saturday, but I wanted to highlight it here as well.




Study: Students want more online learning




Despite a growing interest in online learning among students, the availability of online classes in K-12 schools and districts hasn&#8217;t kept pace with the demand, according to a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4471&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mind Trust Fellowship &#8211; Application Deadline July 31, 2009</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-mind-trust-fellowship-application-deadline-july-31-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-mind-trust-fellowship-application-deadline-july-31-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Entrepreneur Fellowship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[call for applications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This showed up in my inbox a week or so ago, and since I posted an item about it last year I figured that I would share this opportunity with you all again in case there is someone out there interested.
The deadline for Statements of Intent for The Mind Trust’s Education Entrepreneur Fellowship is nearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4251&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interacting With The Puerto Rico Virtual School</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/interacting-with-the-puerto-rico-virtual-school/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/interacting-with-the-puerto-rico-virtual-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to the NECC 2009 – A New Age in Education: Puerto Rico Virtual School and Reminder entries, I was able to attend the live webcast transmission of the Puerto Rico Virtual School&#8217;s booth at NECC as a part of their NECC 2009 Unplugged activities.
I actually had the chance to chat with one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4453&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IT6230 &#8211; Internet In The Classroom</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/it6230-internet-in-the-classroom/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/it6230-internet-in-the-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet in the Classroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne State University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting this morning, I am teaching an online course here at Wayne State University entitled, &#8220;IT6230 &#8211; Internet in the Classroom&#8221;.  The course is essentially broken into two parts, halves if you will.  The first half focuses upon having the students created their own personal learning network using a variety of Web 2.0 tools (kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4278&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: Virtual Schooling Blog Carnival – Call For Submissions</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/reminder-virtual-schooling-blog-carnival-%e2%80%93-call-for-submissions-4/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/reminder-virtual-schooling-blog-carnival-%e2%80%93-call-for-submissions-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Carnival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K-12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K-12 online learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder&#8230;  The call for the July Blog Carnival edition reads:

virtual schooling – http://blogcarnival.com/bc/eprof_26744.html
Description – This is a carnival that is focused upon the use of online learning and distance at the K-12 level. Please submit items that are related to the field of K-12 education – elementary or high school – and online or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4214&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statistics for June 2009: Follow-Up</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/statistics-for-june-2009-follow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/statistics-for-june-2009-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my monthly Statistics for June 2009 entry, I note that I still receive the statistics report via the StatsCounter that I have on my old blog site.  It comes in a weekly format and I normally just delete them, but this month I tried to hold on to them just to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4458&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statistics for June 2009</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/statistics-for-june-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/statistics-for-june-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of 10:30pm on 30 June 2009 there were 6786 hits this past month for an average of 226 a day.  While May was  down about 1100 hits from April, this is the second highest monthly hit count I have had (and April was actually the highest month at 6827 hits).
They came to visit:

Disrupting Class: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=2978&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: NECC 2009 &#8211; A New Age in Education: Puerto Rico Virtual School</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/reminder-necc-2009-a-new-age-in-education-puerto-rico-virtual-school/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/reminder-necc-2009-a-new-age-in-education-puerto-rico-virtual-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkbnl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder of this event that is courtesy of NECC 2009 Unplugged later today:
A New Age in Education: Puerto Rico Virtual School 
An increase of high school students, limited course offerings, and poor teacher hiring prompted the Department of Education to develop Puerto Rico Virtual School.

Website: http://utc.dde.pr/cursosenlinea
Blog: http://utc.dde.pr/celblog
Tuesday, 6/30/2009, 1:00pm–3:00pm WWCC East Registration Lobby, Poster-Table: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4413&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deadline Extended For Keeping Pace Survey To 7/14</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/deadline-extended-for-keeping-pace-survey-to-714/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/deadline-extended-for-keeping-pace-survey-to-714/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A update posted to one of the iNACOL forums.
DEADLINE EXTENDED to Tuesday JULY 14, 5:00 pm EST
At the request of some programs that needed some extra time to collect data, we have extended the deadline to complete the Keeping Pace &#8216;09 Survey. Please consider responding so your program can be included in this important research.
Thank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4449&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Ohio E-Schools Show Superior Results, Data: Academic And Cost Effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/report-ohio-e-schools-show-superior-results-data-academic-and-cost-effectiveness/</link>
		<comments>http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/report-ohio-e-schools-show-superior-results-data-academic-and-cost-effectiveness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above was the title of a message posted in one of the iNACOL forums sometime last week.  The complete message read:
From the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Newly released state data reveal that e-schools perform better academically
than Big 8 districts at lower cost
http://www.oapcs.org/files/EschoolStudy_final6-24-09.pdf
COLUMBUS – Like charter schools and Big 8 urban schools, Ohio’s e-schools are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4423&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got the inspiration for this feature from Dangerously Irrelevant &#8211; who about a month ago posted entries on Top 10 K12 Online 2008 podcasts for busy school administrators and Top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy school administrators.  Based upon this, and since it was kind of similar to the Top 5 Virtual Schooling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4436&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of this morning&#8217;s entry (see NECC 2009 – A New Age in Education: Puerto Rico Virtual School), I was looking over the NECC Ning and saw the following discussions created for K-12 online learning presentations.

Working Hard for a Living: Impressions of K-12 Online Educators &#8211; Leanna Archambault
Virtual Vision: Opening Doors with Online Classes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4417&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to K-12 Online Learning And NECC, I was looking through the NECC 2009 Unplugged wiki and came across this presentation which will be livecast:
A New Age in Education: Puerto Rico Virtual School 
An increase of high school students, limited course offerings, and poor teacher hiring prompted the Department of Education to develop Puerto [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualschooling.wordpress.com&blog=2660309&post=4410&subd=virtualschooling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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