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Roliardi added, “With these interactive courses, students are preparing now for success in college and in their careers.”
NovaNET offers standards-based instruction for secondary and adult learners. The program can be used for education applications like credit accrual, dropout prevention, summer school, credit recovery, virtual schools and virtual learning
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Tom Murphy, a spokesman for the state Department of Education, said he wasn’t aware of any high schools in Connecticut that offer their own online courses, although a program through the Capitol Region Education Council provides them to 525 students throughout the state this semester.
The Connecticut Virtual High School Consortium offers courses such as oceanography and Advanced Placement physics to students in towns that include Simsbury, Rocky Hill and Middletown. The cost to schools that have a teacher conducting a class in the consortium is $130 per course for each student, or $450 for schools that have no participating teachers, said Cara Hart, a CREC program manager.
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The high school has continued to push students academically in addition to providing additional help – in the form of a “CAPT Academy” and a Learning Center – to students who have struggled on the state’s standardized tests, Wygonik said.
Students took more Advanced Placement tests than ever in the 2009-10 school year, Wygonik said. In all, 101 students took 179 exams in 16 subjects, including six subjects not offered at the school that students took classes online, through the Virtual High School program.
Of the 179 exams, students scored between a 3 and a 5, the top score, in 141 exams.
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AT&T (News – Alert), a global IP-based communications company, has recently announced that it will be contributing its annual contribution of $25,000 to support the Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) program.
The program consists of a set of free, online educational activities and resources for shaping tomorrow’s leaders. The Internet is being used as a medium to connect students around the world, to promote a positive, stimulating learning environment, along with cross-cultural communication, develop teamwork. Schools need to apply online, on or before September 30, 2010.
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WOLCOTT —For all of the distractions, temptations and misinformation on the Web, there’s at least one place where computers serve only educational needs: Wolcott High School’s new “virtual learning lab.”
The classroom, which is equipped with 22 computers and is next to the Library Media Center, will house two sections of students who are taking online courses. It’s one of the new technology-based teaching tools students will find when the town’s public schools open Monday.
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“This is a very exciting opportunity. This will provide a model that all districts in Connecticut can adopt to transform what’s happening in the classroom,” Education Connection Executive Director Danuta Thibodeau said Monday.
“It’s a teacher-instructed class which uses the online learning environment. The teacher leads the course and all the materials are online.”
The program requires the grantees to provide a 20 percent match, which means about $860,000 in this case.
Thibodeau was confident the agency would raise the match and credited collaboration — especially among her agency, the state Department of Education and the state Office of Workforce Competitiveness — with the grant application being so strong.
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TORRINGTON — The school district took the first step Wednesday toward establishing opportunities for students to learn online.
Administrators said a new state law requires districts to offer online courses for “credit recovery,” or students who have failed the in-class version of a course.
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Eight high school students from Norwalk are participating this summer in the first run of an online credit-recovery program for Connecticut schools, supported by landmark education reform passed in May. The classes are offered through the Florida Virtual School.
As a boon to the program, the state Department of Education footed the bill for the first 300 students to register, including the four students from Brien McMahon High School and four from Norwalk High School, Sullivan said.
For other students, each class will cost $150.
“The transition to online courses is, no question, a trend,” said Karen Kaplan, educational technology director for the state Department of Education. “As we look to widen our course offerings at a time when finances are tough and districts are experiencing teacher shortages, it’s a great way to try and do that.”
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The district has a legal obligation to educate the expelled student, and Southington last year experimented successfully with online classes as a way of doing just that at a cost of $1,250 per student per year, thereby saving on the expense of a private tutor, $11,400 per year. This year, students will be asked to take the five courses offered by the Virtual Learning Academy on either their home computer or one available at the local library.
We like the fact that a staff member at the high school will oversee the Virtual Learning Academy, since, we’re certain, some students will need support in using an online learning package.
Even more, we like Southington’s determination to offer the program to as few students as possible because the goal is to keep kids in school.
That’s good for the youngster and it’s good for the community, too.
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SOUTHINGTON — Even though the number of middle and high school students expelled declined from 30 to 13 during the 2009-10 school year, this situation still poses a significant cost to the district.
With that in mind, the Board of Education has decided to use a new Virtual Learning Academy, an online program which will save money and allow expelled students to keep up with their classmates.
Superintendent of Schools Joseph Erardi Jr. said the district must still educate that student and the use of a tutor who provides 10 hours of instruction a week costs $11,400 for the school year. The Virtual Learning Academy costs $1,250 per student per year and teaches five courses, he said.
The board tested the program on six expelled students who all had computers at home and all kept up with their classwork.
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