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. Check the links below for sites which may interest you. The site includes a database of distance learning schools The Distance Education and training Council's (DETC) list of accreditated schools These schools are approved the US Department of Education and the Council of Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Accreditation come from DETC, not one of the six regional accreditation agencies. These correspondence schools are less expensive alternatives to the regional schools. |
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org The University of Alaska Fairbanks has developed a new course on "Place Based Education" which is being offered by audioconference for the first time this spring. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the importance of the development of ecologically appropriate community-based educational programs in both rural and urban schools. Priority will be placed upon project-centered programs lending themselves to experiential learning opportunities. The course will include a combination of literature reviews, discussions, curriculum exploration and design, and on-site community exploration of active place-based educational programs. com Foxfire Level One Course June 17 - 21, 2002 or June 24 - 28, 2002 Mountain City, GA The Level One Course provides an introduction to the Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning. |
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School-Choice Hypocrites by Nina Shokraii Rees and Jennifer Garrett (Op-ed, The Wall Street Journal) May 30, 2000. A Lesson in Smaller Class Sizes by Nina Shokraii Rees and Kirk A. Learning the Ropes, Everything you wanted to know about charter schools, but were too afraid of the NEA to ask (Philanthropy magazine) April 27, 2000. Hope for School Reform (Published in The New York Post) April 3, 2000. . |
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The distinction is important, because our goal is to help our students think about the knowledge, the skills, the personal attributes of an ideal citizen of the world for the 21st century. And then, we all work together--you at home, and we in the program--to then move ever closer toward this ideal. This kind of a pursuit of excellence, this kind of thinking can only take place within a "learning community" of the sort that Maxine Green writes about. It is not only safe to grow in such a community, it is encouraged. Within such a community, students know that they are supported in their search for knowledge, they know that they do not have to fit into a particular mold, but rather that they will always be helped to become distinctive individuals. |
A good learning site: http://www.latimes.com/news/learning/20000403/t000031251.html