BY TIM JOHNSON, Kansas City Star
Lost in the debate about online learning, however, is its impact in far-flung regions of the globe, places like the electrical engineering department at the University of El Salvador and the modest walk-up apartment of the Palacios family, above the medical clinic of Dr. Roberto Palacios Navarro, Roosemberth’s father. “At school, he hardly studies. He just shows up and takes the exams,” Palacios said of his son. But it isn’t for lack of ambition. “He wants to learn,” he said. Added the son: “I don’t like simple things.” The 16 year old aced a difficult engineering course offered online by a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Palacios lives with his family in Armenia, El Salvador.
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