Sentence examples for online schooling from inspiring English sources

Because Lorenzo has not been able to return to the classroom, the Education Department recently arranged for him to begin online schooling from home.

Rural Americans have been attracted to online schooling because it allows students even on remote ranches to enroll in arcane courses like Chinese.

"You're interacting with people all the time — with people all over the world," said Nick Benson, a senior whose career as an actor required the flexibility of online schooling.

"And after some inquiry most states have said, 'Yes, we like online learning, but these are such new ways of teaching children that we'll need to change some regulations and get some more oversight.' " Two models of online schooling predominate.

Online schooling, which was all but nonexistent at the elementary and secondary level a decade ago, is today one of the fastest-growing educational sectors, with some half-million course enrollments nationwide.

The district receives annual state payments of $6,050 for each of its 800 students, which it uses to pay teachers and buy its online curriculum from K12. Saying he suspected "corporate profiteering" in online schooling, State Senator John Lehman, a Democrat who is chairman of the education committee, last month proposed cutting the payments to virtual schools to $3,000 per student.

About 200,000 students attend online schools full time, often charter schools that appeal to home-schooling families, according to another report.

Jaago now has 10 successful online schools.

They are mobilized by groups tied to online schools.

Online schools typically are characterized by high rates of withdrawal.

The online schools have unreliable electricity through generators.