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Yikes! Chinese Students Must Scale Cliff to Get to School [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:58:15 +0000

Every story your grandfather told you about how many miles he walked in the snow to get to school has been obliterated by what students in the Chinese village of Pili have to go through to get their learning on. Pili is in a mountainous region over 100 miles away from the closest school, so every semester [...]

Teacher Realizes 'The Daily Show' Is More Harmful to Students Than He Thought

Kathy Landin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:39:22 +0000

Back in the day, high school classes would only show “how a bill becomes a law” videos, but Rhett Felix, a teacher at Eureka High school outside of Peoria, Illinois, tried to spice things up a bit. He used clips from Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart‘ to educate his students about current events, but the local school board placed him on paid suspension once word got out.

Online Courses for Elementary and High School Students?

Shauna Wright — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:23:02 +0000

In an effort to accommodate students with varying levels of advancement and in reaction to state budgetary cuts, at least 30 states in the US now let elementary and high school students take all their courses online.

According to Evergreen Education Group, a consulting firm that works with online schools, an estimated 250,000 students nationwide are enrolled in full-time virtual schools, a 40 percent increase in the last three years. And the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, a trade group, says two million kids take at least one class online.