Online Schools: the Changing Face of K12 Student Learning

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With each decade the face of education has changededucation community and the technology community. In
to reflect the current trends in education. The policymany instances this partnership is a thorn in the side of
initiatives of each president, governor, communitytraditional education and educators who see only
leader and parent have been aimed at transformingstandard classrooms as the answer to the ills of the
children's learning environments into the ideal situation.American k-12 system
While these initiatives may never succeed to meetOnline schools have revolutionized the workplace for
every child's needs the combined result of their workskilled teachers and administrators. The result of this
has created an environment where education canunion is the ability to create a tailored classroom for
now be tailored to meet the needs of every childgifted, struggling and needs-based students that, until
through online schools.the advent of online learning, were often segregated
Much like the advent of the search engine and bookingto specialty teaching groups to meet their potential.
our own airline travel, the Internet has introduced theThe education landscape has changed and for many
nation to online education. To many, the commercialbrick and mortar school districts this is a hard fact to
products available from higher education degreeface. The local school boards and education
granting giants like the University of Phoenix definedepartments in America have begun to realize that
online learning. However, to a growing population ofbusiness as usual isn't he solution to a rapidly
Americans, online schools have come to define theadvancing world and have begun to embrace the
middle ground between home schooling andassets of online education.
personalized public education.Unlike the as-we-know-it classroom the online
While charter schools continue to spring up across theenvironment can be adjusted to meet the needs of
country, there are a select few that have beenevery child and instill the state standards required of
created in the charter school mold simply because thestudents since the advent of the No Child Left Behind
education establishment can not keep pace withAct without stagnating the classroom experience.
today's innovations. In Ohio for example, the ElectronicFrom thousands of courses to graduation test practice
Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) was created insessions and immediate intervention opportunities,
2000 not to revolutionize charter schools, but to bringonline schools offers to the students and families of
to Ohio's children and families leading education content2006 what the computer breakthroughs of the past
in a format designed to enable every child to succeed.several decades offered to the business community.
ECOT provides every child with an education optionSimply put, online schools have the ability to provide
that delivers to each student exactly what they needevery individual with the right information in the right
while providing the comprehensive state standardsformat at the right time for optimal success.
based education that is the hallmark of successfulOnline schools were once considered the wave of the
public and private schools.future. That future is now and the online revolution
Other online schools and content companies such ascontinues to shape the world of real life education
the Florida Virtual Academy and K12 Education arewithout the boundaries of classroom walls.