Posted on June - 25 - 2011
When people find out that I am a graduate of an online school, they often ask “how many hours did you
spend online?” or “how flexible was it?“.
What I usually tell them is that when you choose online school, you get to choose how it works for you. You get to choose what and when. After a little while, youll know when you do your best work and what youll be working on. Every student is different, and needs to find the best schedule that fits his or her needs. So
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Posted on June - 21 - 2011
As promised, a follow up to a previous post about Youth Connection Charter School and their
2011 graduating class:
Youth Connection Charter School (YCCS) Virtual High School, a school designed to get struggling students on the path to success, hosted its second commencement of the graduating class of 2011 on June 17 at the Arturo Velazquez Institute. 120 students, many of which were prior high school drop outs, or struggling students, donned traditional caps and gowns today marking the completion of their high school requirements and for many, just a necessary step towards their college career.
“Last years graduation ceremony was historical because it was our first graduating class. This
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Posted on May - 05 - 2011
On April 29, 2011, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business celebrated the opening of its new building, the Knight Management Center. Future applicants will be interested in how the 12.5-acre management complex reflects the business school’s new curriculum.
The designers aimed to create a structure that reflects the ideals of Stanford’s new curriculum. Dean Garth Saloner explains: “The really big problems in the world require teams of people from different perspectives.” Therefore, in 2007 the school transformed its curriculum to take into account the many connections between business and other disciplines, as well as between business functions. But in order to create bridges between business and the other disciplines the school needed more space.
As Dean Saloner points out, “The new facility fosters the innovative thinking and collaboration required of GSB students and serves as a launch pad for new courses and programs, as well as a platform from which our faculty will create cutting edge management knowledge in the years to come.”
The $345 million center will certainly be a pleasure to study in, with its 70 small breakout study rooms built to encourage group meetings. It will also house
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Posted on March - 22 - 2011
For those Washington suburbanites who think their local high school is straining from the weight of Advanced Placement courses and other academic demands, you haven’t seen anything yet.
On Tuesday, go to the hearing at Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School in the District at 8:40 p.m. and learn about a proposed new charter school called BASIS DC.
The name sounds basic and modest, but it is the most demanding proven model for a school ever introduced in D.C. The original BASIS school, located in a Tucson shopping mall, has become by one measure the sixth most challenging high school in the country. Last year it gave more than 10 AP exams for every graduating senior. Its nearest Washington area rival, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, gave only 7 AP exams per senior.
This region has the highest concentration of AP and International Baccalaureate courses and tests in the country. S
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