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Educational overhaul looms for Sanford, SAD 60

January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

While the training of faculty and staff will begin right away, other changes will not go into effect until fall when the new learning pathways coordinator begins working with first-year high school students and first- and second-year technical school students (juniors and seniors) and Virtual High School.

“The online high school learning program will allow students for whom their needed pathway to high school completion does not exist at Sanford High School to go online and take the courses they need to complete their pathway, for example Mandarin Chinese language or associate degree courses not offered at York County Community College,” St. Cyr said.

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School Choice Offers Opportunity for the Teaching Profession

January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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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Best Online High Schools gets new design

December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Best Online High Schools has now been updated with a new design and new features. This new version will continue to provide you with the best information available on the Internet about online high schools.

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Gov.-elect LePage discusses plans for higher education

November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

LePage also clarified his proposed five-year high school plan, which would allow participants to earn an associate degree while going to high school an extra year.

The normal four-year option for students to graduate with a diploma would still stand. He said students in the five-year program could utilize online education and video courses and physically attend community college courses at one of seven campuses statewide.

“It’s not unusual for a Waterville High School student to go to Colby [College] and take a couple courses,” LePage said. “If the college is right local, you can do it right on-site. If it’s not, you can do it virtual or do it online.”

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Our View: Online classes cross many more borders than one

September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

That expansion of expertise enriches the variety of courses available in any location, greatly increasing the value of that institution’s diploma.

This year, 43 Maine schools are participating in the course offerings from Virtual High School Global Consortium, which offers more than 300 courses online, including “peacemaking,” advanced placement statistics, constitutional law, pre-veterinary medicine and environmental science.

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Distance Learning

July 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

It is important to note when looking at the 2004-2005 Maine Distance Learning Report that it reflects the first year of a very small project in a small state. The sampling of five distance learning teachers is very small, but the comments in the overall report give an understanding of the successes and the roadblocks that we encountered in year 1. Continuing Maine’s work with Project IDEAL during 2005-2006 and using the KET program, GED Connections, the plan is to increase the number of learners in year 2. At the end of this year, we will evaluate whether distance learning will work in Maine and how it will work. As with the first year, we are confident that we will again gain tremendous new insight as we learn how to provide distance education.

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