Analysis Notes Virtual Ed. Priorities in RTT Winners
Review shows most victors submitted strong e-learning plans.
While public education experts have been debating which priorities weighed most heavily in the second round of the federal Race to the Top grant awards, a review by an online education group shows most of the 10 winners submitted strong online-learning proposals.
Susan D. Patrick, the president of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, or iNACOL, said a wiki document released by the Vienna, Va.-based group highlighting the virtual-learning components in all 19 round-two finalists' applications shows the winners—nine states and the District of Columbia—were ready to use the grant money to offer more online opportunities and to make needed policy changes.
Further, she said, those changes are happening in regions that traditionally have been hesitant to embrace online learning. While all 16 state members of the Southern Regional Education Board, which has succeeded in encouraging its members to embrace online learning, make up more than half the 27 states with statewide virtual schools, Ms. Patrick said she was more encouraged by the applications...
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