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Virtual Schooling

Virtual schooling is a new approach in the distance learning field that allows a highly personalized learning opportunity combing the best of virtual and classroom-based schools or programs tailored to a child’s needs and interests. Students and teachers interact through the Internet, using specialized course delivery platforms. Policy experts predict that by 2019, less than 10 years from now, the number of children enrolled in online learning schools and programs will surpass those enrolled exclusively in traditional classroom instruction.

Today, more than 1 million children in the United States are full-time or part-time virtual schoolers, and each year the number of kids learning online for part or all of their education grows by 30 percent.

Virtual Schooling: A Guide To Optimizing Your Child's Education, Elizabeth Kanna, Lisa Gillis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.