By Rob Kuznia, Daily Breeze
In just one year ending in the summer of 2011, the number of K-12 students in this category shot up nationally from 200,000 to 250,000, according to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. A decade ago, the figure was 40,000. The phenomenon of online K-12 classes is still pretty fresh – so much so that research on their effectiveness is severely lacking. And so much so that the California Department of Education has no data on their prevalence statewide. (That information will be coming in the next few months, officials say.) Colleges and universities have long offered online classes; high schools have long done the same for credit recovery. Until recently, though, online courses for the college-bound high school student were a rarity, but that’s beginning to change.
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