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Hall may create virtual charter school

July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Traditional classroom learning might become a thing of the past for Hall County Schools.

As the district incorporates more technology, officials are investigating the possibility of a virtual charter school for grades sixth through 12th.

Online courses would be offered not just for remedial credit, as they are now, but also for initial credit.

“Probably what would happen is a student would still be enrolled at (her home school), but wherever our hub is, that could be set up elsewhere,” said Eloise Barron, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning at Hall County Schools. “We’d probably start small and start it at one of the schools.”

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Eight Affordable Ideas for Georgia

January 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Expanded Online Education Options: Budget cuts have forced many schools to eliminate arts, foreign language and Advanced Placement course offerings. The Georgia Virtual School (GAVS), managed by the Georgia Department of Education, provides a wide variety of online courses taught by certified teachers to any school in the state. Unfortunately, the number of classes offered by GAVS is capped. Georgia should eliminate the cap and every student to take advantage of these high-quality, online courses.

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Online Learning: An Opportunity to Transform Public Education in Georgia

November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Some students enroll in full-time online programs, in which they do their schooling from home and access highly qualified teachers and content via the Internet. Even more take just one or two online courses and take the rest of their courses in the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom arrangement. Increasingly, students are enrolling in blended or hybrid arrangements, where they learn at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery.

The state of Georgia is no stranger to online learning. According to the Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning report, 13,000-15,000 Georgia students took online courses in 2008-09. The Georgia Virtual School, a state-run entity under the auspices of the state Department of Education, boasted 9,793 enrollments[2] in the 2008-09 school year. Georgia has full-time online charter schools as well, including the Georgia Virtual Academy, a K-8 school operated by the online learning company K12 Inc. that served 4,400 full-time students in 2008-09.

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Math support is helping students to build confidence in their skills

November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The state also offers a free online course through Georgia Virtual School to help students review Math I, II and III. Mathematics ExPreSS Online is available for free and features sample questions to prepare the Class of 2012 for the new Georgia High School Graduation Test. Parents can also use it to help their kids understand math homework.

Hall County Schools Math III support teachers use the online course to supplement their lessons and track student progress as they teach the 20 standards on the new high school graduation test. Some of the lessons preview Math III skills. “A regular Math III course cannot devote as much time for graduation test review as the Math III Support class,” said Melissa Stewart, a Hall math teacher on special administrative assignment who helped to design the state’s online course. The district has 17 Math III Support classes.

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Credit recovery boosts Hall grad rate

November 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Graduation rates in Hall County and across the state are up, and Hall County Schools Superintendent Will Schofield attributes that increase in Hall to school credit recovery programs, among other factors.

Through online courses, students are able to make up classes they failed. And the system is beating the state graduation rate of 80.8 percent at all but one school.

Gov. Sonny Perdue stopped at North Hall High School on Tuesday to congratulate students for earning a 95 percent graduation rate, one of the highest in the state.

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Are education credit recovery programs really effective?

August 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Although the concept of credit recovery isn’t new – summer school is perhaps its oldest and most traditional form – little is known about the effectiveness of most recovery programs or even how widely they’re used.

But credit recovery is an essential part of efforts to increase high school graduation rates in urban, suburban and rural schools nationwide. Several big districts like those in New York City and Chicago have used credit recovery programs for a few years now.

Some entire states, like Florida and Georgia, offer a range of online courses, including credit recovery, through state-funded virtual schools. And every day school districts announce the creation of new programs or expand those they already offer.

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