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With growing access to technology, distance education for K-12 students has the potential to spread. According to An online survey done by Dr. Tom Clark, commissioned by the Distance Learning Resource Network (DLRN) and WestEd, and co-sponsored by The Centre for the Application of Information |
Technologies at Western Illinois University, conducted from July trough August 2001, 14 states of the U.S. have "a planned or operational state-sanctioned, state-level virtual school in place" (Clark). Clark estimates that 40,000 to 50,000 K-12 students will become "virtual" in the next year. “The Distance Learning Resource Network (DLRN) is the dissemination project for the Star Schools Program, a federally funded distance education program which offers instructional modules, enrichment activities and courses in science, mathematics, foreign languages, workplace skills, high school completion” (DLRN). |
