Educational Technology

September 14, 2012

The Reality and the Hype Behind Online Learning and the ‘School of One’

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

by Leonie Haimson, Huffington Post

The Daily News has a story about a new negative evaluation of DOE’s much vaunted “School of One” program. This study, which found no significant achievement gains from the program, was quietly placed on the Research Alliance website in the middle of summer with no apparent outreach to the media or the public. This contrasts with the huge publicity machine promoting this online program that has operated since its inception as a pilot started in the summer of 2009. The School of One is an online, or “blended,” learning math program, combining online with small group instruction.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonie-haimson/the-reality-and-the-hype-_b_1859859.html

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