Online Learning

A Literal New World of Possibilities for Minnesota K-12 Education

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When it comes to government’s essential role in funding education, the holiest of grails is significantly improving quality while simultaneously constraining costs.  Suffice it to say, no level of government, in or out of Minnesota, can point to many successes in melding and achieving these two imperatives in elementary and secondary schools.  Yet without indulging in the kind of exaggerated expectations and claims frequently voiced in K-12 circles, the case to be made is that of all reforms on the educational table, taking greater advantage of online learning does, in fact, promise to help children learn measurably more without forcing taxpayers to spend measurably more.

Education can be customized as never before because of ongoing technological advances.  This is a very big deal given how boys and girls have different types of intelligence and learning styles, as well as different starting points and pace.

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