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K12 (LRN) Announces Quarterly Results

November 16, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

K12 Inc. (K12) is a technology-based education company. The Company offers curriculum and educational services designed to facilitate individualized learning for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, or K-12. The Company delivers its learning system to students primarily through virtual public schools and are building an institutional business with sales directly to school districts. K12 offers virtual public schools its curriculum, online learning platform and varying levels of academic and management services, which can range from targeted programs to complete turnkey solutions. In addition, parents can purchase its curriculum and learning solutions directly to facilitate or supplement their childrenâ€™s education. In April 2010, K12 formed a joint venture with Middlebury College known as Middlebury Interactive Languages LLC (MIL) to develop online foreign language courses. In July 2010, the Company acquired all of KC Distance Learning, Inc. (KCDL).

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The Growth of Virtual Learning (rebroadcast)

November 7, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

The idea of virtual learning is growing in the American education system. More students from Kindergarten through 12th grade are learning in front of a screen rather than from a live teacher. While some say the format is cost efficient and tailored to each individual’s learning speed, others say essential components of the schooling system, such as development of social skills and hands on lessons, are being compromised in the process. Many educators are looking on with reluctant optimism as the virtual world expands in its implementation. Today we’re looking at education that favors computers over classrooms.

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School Choice Offers Opportunity for the Teaching Profession

January 18, 2011 By admin

As technology changes and evolves, the world of education and teaching will undoubtedly change. Teachers across the country must stay ahead of the curve.

Although some teachers and the unions see school choice as foreboding for the public school outlook, school choice encompasses empowerment for the parent to choose an environment that employs teachers in all arenas. A new era has been ushered in for education. Once limited to rigid traditional school terms and schedules, teachers are employed in traditional public schools, charters, private schools, religious schools, and online schools just to name a few. Educators will in turn have choices themselves when deciding when, where and how to teach kids.

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SkyView sees limitless possibilities

September 9, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

The building was completely renovated and refurbished, and parents got their first glimpse at the intricate interior during tours at the opening. The hallways simulate a streetscape, and 150 skylights let natural light into every classroom in the building.

Lorrie Grove, a founding board member of SkyView Academy and NorthStar Academy in Parker, described the atmosphere at the opening as “energizing.”

“You could just feel it in the air,” she said. “There was a buzz.”

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No room in the virtual classroom

September 8, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

PICAYUNE — A state education official who helps coordinate a virtual on-line school says the program is so popular and in so much demand that all slots are now filled and no more applications are being accepted for now.

However, Tina Sellers, special projects officer with what is called the Mississippi Virtual Public School, said that as soon as the program is ready to begin accepting more applicants, school districts throughout the state will be notified.

In addition, Sellers said that some parents are under the impression that their child can graduate from high school through the program, but that is not the case. However, some of the courses offered in the program might help the student graduate, she said.

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Picayune school board approves cafetorium color scheme

August 30, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

High school principal Kent Kirkland and assistant principal Toni Tucei told the board the district has some students who could have graduated last year, if they had successfully completed the high school course, but were unable to graduate with their class, even though they had passed state curriculum tests in the courses they had failed.

In a related matter, Cindy Burgess, the mother of student being home schooled because he competes on the road in motorcycle events asked that her son be allowed to take high school courses through the Mississippi Virtual Public School so he could earn a diploma.

Burgess said she knows that Pearl River County School District has some students enrolled in the school taking a physics course because PRC school district superintendent Dennis Penton told her that it was cheaper for the students to take the courses on line than it was for the school district to hire a physics teacher.

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Online program to serve Miss. students

August 10, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

National virtual education provider Connections Academy has been awarded the contract to operate Mississippi’s statewide supplemental online program, the Mississippi Virtual Public School.

The Legislature voted last spring to contract with an outside provider to deliver the MVPS which was previously operated by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Connections Academy, headquartered in Baltimore, Md., was selected as the turnkey provider through a rigorous Request for Proposal process by MDE.

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