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Best Online Schools For Gifted Students

The Maker Mom

The benefits of online schools for gifted students are worth considering for those outpacing their classmates in traditional schools. Students can access classes they wouldn’t be able to otherwise in a traditional school setting and satisfy their intellectual cravings.

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Engaging All Learners: Expanding High School Options for Success

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High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Yet, the one-size-fits-all model persists in many high schools. Could we expand high school options to guarantee every student’s success?

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Sal Khan’s New Online School Wants to Make ‘Mastery Learning’ Global

ED Surge

For 50 ninth graders, showing up to school this fall meant taking part in an experiment. The students had enrolled in the latest effort by Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, the online tool he started by making videos on YouTube that is now used by hundreds of districts in the U.S. The idea appealed to ASU Prep.

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Reasonable strategies for the future of schooling in unreasonable times

The Innovative Educator

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) put out hard to swallow guidance about the reopening of schools. Unless there are some big changes in our educational system, we will not be able to incorporate this guidance into our schools. Reasonable strategies The Coronavirus can forever change how we do school. Here’s how.

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Amazing Benefits of Taking a Short Course

Ask a Tech Teacher

But here is some things that you need to know about the short course: All study materials are delivered online. A short course is very flexible because it is an online school where every student manages their time of study. Students can study anywhere and anytime they want. Students manage their time studying.

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Skip high school. Go straight to college. Here’s how!

The Innovative Educator

By Rylie VanOrsdol In my fourteen years of life, I have been public schooled, online schooled, charter schooled, private schooled, Montessori schooled, and homeschooled. I’ve skipped a grade and completed a grade in three months online. A recent adventure was collegiate middle school.

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Branson Online School Students Receive Industry Certification In Web Design and Paid Internships – Press Release

CTE Learning

Branson, Colorado February 19, 2016 – Two Branson School Online students are the first BSO High School students to complete the new Web Design course and to receive the Certified Web Designer industry credentials. Both Branson Online students have already been offered a paid internships with companies.