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Online learning an effective option for students

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:54:45 +0000

Dan Lips (Point of View, Feb. 5) calls on legislators to give parents more freedom to choose the best learning environment for their children. He also praises online learning as an innovative educational choice that lets students receive individualized instruction. As the head of an Oklahoma City-based online learning provider that partners with schools and districts statewide to offer Oklahoma Virtual High School, I’ve seen firsthand how online education has helped state students graduate and succeed.

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York discovered gymnastics early

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:03:52 +0000

As a junior at JHS, York won the state high school championship in the vault and was second in the floor exercise. Not long after that, Jenks dropped its gymnastics program and York was searching for a new home.

Today, she trains at Dynamo Gymnastics in Oklahoma City and resides with a family in Edmond while taking classes through Oklahoma Virtual High School.

This certainly isn’t a vacation.

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DeVry University presents career conferences for young women

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:04:24 +0000

About 30 young women from across the state received career advice Tuesday during an all-day conference hosted by DeVry University at the Oklahoma History Center.

For Carmen Rutledge, 18, the day was a chance to learn about new career paths and to interact with other high school students, something she rarely gets as a student with Oklahoma Virtual High School.

“I haven’t really looked at the fields they’re talking about here,” said Rutledge, who wants to be a screen actress. “I need a backup plan.”

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Online education discussed at Oklahoma City conference

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:55:53 +0000

Online learning — whether that’s an entirely virtual high school system that hands out diplomas or a single course in Spanish — has emerged from the “fringe of education to the heart of it,” said the keynote speaker at the Online Leadership Summit this week.

“When kids sit in a classroom and they are handed a textbook and they can look out the window and know that, that is not how information is distributed in the world, you know we have an antiquated system,” said Susan Patrick, president of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning at the Skirvin Hotel Thursday.

Her comments were to a room of about 60 school superintendents from across the nation who came to Oklahoma City to learn the latest national and international trends in Internet based education.

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Video: Oklahoma Virtual High School

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:00:01 +0000

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