Online Schooling Grows, Setting Off a Debate
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Half a million American children take classes online, and many are attending virtual public schools that are competing with local districts for public funding.
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By Julia Stuart  They come home from school, ignore their toyboxes and log on. Mouses in hand, they enter a virtual world and play with their dolls online. The real thing, it appears, is no longer cool.   There is a plethora of internet sites now catering for young girls.
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From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the âWisconsin Idea.â Erasing completely the âborders of learning,â they depend on the Mac to let learning go onâfor students and teachers alikeâanywhere and at anytime.
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Universities are reworking the shared online library resource into a virtual teaching and learning lab.
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Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone.
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Schools lag behind much of society in using technology, but students are seeing benefits and clamoring for more access to computers, the government says.
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Two business school academics who have disagreed over the viability of social networking in enterprises touched gloves once again Friday during a Webcast debate.
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A debate is festering among graduates and parents at St. Paul's, an elite school in New Hampshire, with critics accusing trustees and the rector of mismanagement.
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Two years ago, every student at T.C. Williams High received a wireless laptop computer. Alexandria school officials described the venture as a leap into the future of education and a way to close the digital divide.
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A state where charter schools have been growing fast - and running into troubles - is now debating a new approach
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The debate is centered on whether cheap laptops are the best way to improve education in the developing world.
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For nearly six years, the federal government has defined school success mainly by how many students pass state reading and math tests. But a growing number of educators and lawmakers are pushing to give more weight to graduation rates, achievement in science and history and even physical education.
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A technology known as an audience response system is spreading to public and private schools across the country.
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University students are working on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as part of their degree course.
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For teenagers, online harassment has become a part of everyday life, but many schools and parents have only just become aware of it.
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By Joy Campbell, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 7--So far, Sidney Board, 14, knows how to get on the Internet, and she likes making slide shows on a computer. That pretty well sums up her computer knowledge.   But that's about to change.
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NEW YORK -- One in five American parents believe their kids are spending too much time on the Internet, though most say the online activities haven't affected grades either way.