This may not seem to be about online learning, but it is. The core of the story is this: a growing number of the two percent of American children who are home schooled are taking individual courses - such as physical education or chemistry labs - at the local public school. This is a positive trend and not merely because it increases these students' social interactions. It is the beginning of the transformation of schools from institutes of institutionalized learning to providers of community based learning services (or as I have depicted them in previous writings, community learning centers). Expect to see more of this: for where is it written that home schooling has to take place exclusively in the home? Or even that a student must attend one and only one school (ok, well, this one's probably written all over the place, but it's time for a rethink)?
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