[doc30]

Never happen. NEA would oppose it because it would deny their ability to 'social engineer' the next generation into marxists.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Hard to believe the media is actually covering this.

The idea’s only been around for 30 years or so.

[LiteKeeper]

Welcome to the Homeschool philosophy of education

[ClearCase_guy]

I've been dreaming of this change for a long time. But I agree with you, there are a number of powerful reasons (*cough* unions *cough*)why this would be difficult to implement.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Pennsylvanoa has a lot of Cyber Schools.

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=2737&dept_id=576361&newsid=18716059

[VOA]

bump

[riverdawg]

I’ve heard for 50 years that some (usually, the “latest and greatest”) technology could/should/would “revolutionize” the learning process. Educational TV, self-paced learning, the Internet, blah, blah, blah. There is great value in watching someone at a (black or white) board go through the process of solving a math problem, for example, and responding to questions along the way. That’s hard to replicate in a book or on the Internet.

[econjack]

I’ve done both, but there’s no substitute for face-to-face instruction. Also, social interaction is an important element in the educational process. Finally, some people lack the self-discipline to be successful in a distance learning environment.

[Kevmo]

BMFLR

[subterfuge]

It’s inevitable. And I didn’t even read the article!!

[familyop]

With other family members, I’ve done almost enough C++ software development training to begin doing contract jobs. Most employers/clients will have a problem with me, though. I dropped from a university program long ago after having had enough of man-hating rants from instructors. From computer science instructors’ notes around the Web, it is apparent that most are presenting effectively obsolete C library functions to students. Many students are also doing C courses before C++ courses (big no-no).

So we’ll most likely check the market for demands and likely needs then start our own project. And all of our training came from some of the best developers on earth, who put their books, notes and articles on the Internet. Yes, it all came from the Net. ;-)

So we’ll probably be rejected as employees, but we’re going to defeat the corporate/academic competition. ;-)