Kids getting interested in learning via internet
According to this news item, the benefits of online education are being made available to not only working professionals but also school-going children who now no longer have to leave their homes for school; the school comes home to them everyday via the internet.
For example, take the case of James Testa who says "You really get independent study and if you need help, they give you certain sites you can go on and it will explain everything for you." James and other students like him are enjoying an unprecedented freedom and a sense of responsibility about structuring their studies thanks to the California Virtual Academies Program, an online public school program.
Its not just dry subjects like math and science that they gain exposure to, they learn about the arts and music as well, how about that? The California Virtual Academies Program imparts education to 4000 state children who are K-10. The program hopes to add grades 11 and 12 as well. Of course, the program does require that an adult be at home to be there for answering the student
September 7th, 2006 at 2:28 am #Angel Rachel
I was going through some resource yesterday, and I noticed on an email I got from kids education within reach that they were online for kids.