The only way online education companies can respond to concerns about quality and age-appropriateness is if they are given the chance to experiment and win over students and parents. Government policies need to be tweaked, and companies need investment to grow. But for online education to really take off, we need to let the chalkboard in the little red schoolhouse go, and learn to love the glow of a child’s face lit by a laptop screen.
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| — | Taking a look at successful virtual schools like like Connections Academy based in Baltimore and dealing with the tensions created by fights over budget and union positions on traditional school — from an excellent article in the Washington Post about online education, by Katherine Mangu-Ward |
