| With each decade the face of education has changed | | | | real-life education community and the technology |
| to reflect the current trends in education. The policy | | | | community. In many instances this partnership is a |
| initiatives of each president, governor, community | | | | thorn in the side of traditional education and |
| leader and parent have been aimed at transforming | | | | educators who see only standard classrooms as the |
| children's learning environments into the ideal situation. | | | | answer to the ills of the American k-12 system |
| While these initiatives may never succeed to meet | | | | Online schools have revolutionized the workplace for |
| every child's needs the combined result of their work | | | | skilled teachers and administrators. The result of this |
| has created an environment where education can | | | | union is the ability to create a tailored classroom for |
| now be tailored to meet the needs of every child | | | | gifted, struggling and needs-based students that, until |
| through online schools. | | | | the advent of online learning, were often segregated |
| Much like the advent of the search engine and | | | | to specialty teaching groups to meet their potential. |
| booking our own airline travel, the Internet has | | | | The education landscape has changed and for many |
| introduced the nation to online education. To many, | | | | brick and mortar school districts this is a hard fact to |
| the commercial products available from higher | | | | face. The local school boards and education |
| education degree granting giants like the University of | | | | departments in America have begun to realize that |
| Phoenix define online learning. However, to a growing | | | | business as usual isn't he solution to a rapidly |
| population of Americans, online schools have come to | | | | advancing world and have begun to embrace the |
| define the middle ground between home schooling | | | | assets of online education. |
| and personalized public education. | | | | Unlike the as-we-know-it classroom the online |
| While charter schools continue to spring up across | | | | environment can be adjusted to meet the needs of |
| the country, there are a select few that have been | | | | every child and instill the state standards required of |
| created in the charter school mold simply because | | | | students since the advent of the No Child Left |
| the education establishment can not keep pace with | | | | Behind Act without stagnating the classroom |
| today's innovations. In Ohio for example, the | | | | experience. From thousands of courses to graduation |
| Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) was | | | | test practice sessions and immediate intervention |
| created in 2000 not to revolutionize charter schools, | | | | opportunities, online schools offers to the students |
| but to bring to Ohio's children and families leading | | | | and families of 2006 what the computer |
| education content in a format designed to enable | | | | breakthroughs of the past several decades offered |
| every child to succeed. ECOT provides every child | | | | to the business community. Simply put, online schools |
| with an education option that delivers to each | | | | have the ability to provide every individual with the |
| student exactly what they need while providing the | | | | right information in the right format at the right time |
| comprehensive state standards based education that | | | | for optimal success. |
| is the hallmark of successful public and private | | | | Online schools were once considered the wave of |
| schools. | | | | the future. That future is now and the online |
| Other online schools and content companies such as | | | | revolution continues to shape the world of real life |
| the Florida Virtual Academy and K12 Education are | | | | education without the boundaries of classroom walls. |
| part of a growing trend that brings together the | | | | |