Talk:Online school

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I see a lot of references to the Florida Virtual School in here. I tried to clean it up without deleting too much content, but it seems to me that this page was created for promotional reasons, and needs some revamping. Does anyone else agree with me? --Austinsimcox 21:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I cleaned up alot of the spam external links and removed the spam template. Alot of the ones listed were either clearly hoaxes, or not virtual schools at all. I hope that helps. --Austinsimcox 14:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I came across both these articles, and they're really both about the same thing, so I think cyberschool should be merged into this article. GreenJoe 16:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I agree that cyberschools and virtual schools are pretty much the same thing.

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The page header section doesn't include the distinction between asynchronous and synchronous models (see cyberschool section), nor does it include reference to live classroom software like iLinc, Elluminate and KeynoteConferencing. It only mentions Moodle, which is a very powerful tool, but does not have live chat (mic and text) in front of an interactive whiteboard led by a professional educator. The other software mentioned does.

If you'd like more info, pls contact [email protected] / [email protected] - or a demo might provide a Wikipedia author with a better insight as to what we do. Hope this is okay  :-)

80.2.122.228 21:59, 30 October 2007 (UTC)A Briteschool Administrator[reply]

Merge apparently done since cyberschool now redirects to this page.--Nowa (talk) 11:50, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is a quote early in the article that states something like: From 2011 to 2014, 100% of cyber students failed, etc... It lists a reference article. Within the article itself, the quote seems to come from another source that supposed published this "fact" in 2012. That's impossible. It also seems that the 100% is not referring to all Philidelphia cyber students, but perhaps 100% of cyber students from a specific district in the area of Philidelphia. It's very misleading. I am requesting that the quote and citation be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.97.96.144 (talk) 16:24, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the cyberschool page some time ago and provided several scholarly references. They have been deleted. I presume from the discussion here that the practitioners of K-12 distance learning are considered self promoting. Not so. Most are state agencies; but there are corporate sponsors that provide repositories of recent research. This article currently has none. BTW a cybershool is full time K-12 online learning and a virtual school is supplementary. Why are there non-scholars with clear political biases editing more qualified editors? http://dbbearden.googlepages.com/links —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.253.71.225 (talk) 23:28, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes and no. Generally speaking the term virtual school has been used to describe the supplemental K-12 online learning programs, while cyber school has been used to describe the full-time K-12 online learning programs (most of which come in the form of online charter schools). But this is primarily a US distinction. Once you move outside of the United States and the whole school choice political issues, the terms are rather synonymous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drbarbour (talk • contribs) 03:44, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't got time to make an sub-article right now, but in the UK a Virtual School is a means whereby a local authority maintains oversight of "Looked After Children" under its corporate parenting responsibilities, through a number of designated teachers under the authority of a head-teacher, co-ordinating provision for the needs of such children in their own "orndinary" schools. Kevin McE (talk) 11:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've suggested that this article and

Disagree I agree with Marc, virtual schooling is associated with online learning at the K-12 level. The article as it is needs a major revision, and I was hoping to do some work on it myself over the next few months. But both virtual university and online degree are associated with higher education, and virtual schooling and cyberschooling are associated with the K-12 environment. An improved article should remain as a stand alone item. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drbarbour (talk • contribs) 03:41, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think sufficient time has passed. The vote ends at 1 for the merge, and two against. I have removed the suggested merge suggestion. Anyone who wishes to reopen the case, please re-add the merge tab, and post your reason here. Thanks. ♪♫19maxx♪♫ 01:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

This article may be helpful.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/education/students-of-virtual-schools-are-lagging-in-proficiency.html

Students of Online Schools Are Lagging By JENNY ANDERSON Published: January 6, 2012

The number of students in virtual schools run by educational management organizations rose sharply last year, according to a new report being published Friday, and far fewer of them are proving proficient on standardized tests compared with their peers in other privately managed charter schools and in traditional public schools.

About 116,000 students were educated in 93 virtual schools — those where instruction is entirely or mainly provided over the Internet — run by private management companies in the 2010-11 school year, up 43 percent from the previous year, according to the report being published by the National Education Policy Center, a research center at the University of Colorado. About 27 percent of these schools achieved “adequate yearly progress,” the key federal standard set forth under the No Child Left Behind act to measure academic progress. By comparison, nearly 52 percent of all privately managed brick-and-mortar schools reached that goal, a figure comparable to all public schools nationally.

--Nbauman (talk) 22:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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