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Alex Molnar Ed. – National Education Policy Center, 2023
Over the past two and a half decades, digital technologies and virtual education have moved quickly to the top of the K-12 public education reform agenda. Proponents, including business leaders, school reform organizations, foundations, and for-profit and nonprofit service providers, argue that virtual technology will revolutionize teaching and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Educational Technology, Distance Education
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Alex Molnar Ed. – National Education Policy Center, 2015
This 2015 report is third in a series of annual reports on virtual education in the U.S. It is organized in three major sections: Section I examines the policy and political landscape associated with virtual schooling and describes the current state of affairs related to finance and governance, instructional program quality, and teacher quality.…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Finance
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Alex Molnar Ed. – National Education Policy Center, 2017
In the five years since the first National Education Policy Center (NEPC) "Annual Report on Virtual Education" was released in 2013, virtual education has continued to be a focal point for policymakers. Proponents argue that virtual education can expand student choices and improve the efficiency of public education. In particular,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Blended Learning, Public Schools, Traditional Schools
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Alex Molnar Ed. – National Education Policy Center, 2014
This report is the second of a series of annual reports by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) on virtual education in the U.S. The NEPC reports contribute to the existing evidence and discourse on virtual education by providing an objective analysis of the evolution and performance of full-time, publicly funded K-12 virtual schools. This…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Finance
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Alex Molnar Ed. – National Education Policy Center, 2013
This national study, which comprehensively reviews 311 virtual schools operating in the United States, finds serious and systemic problems with the nation's full-time cyber schools. Despite virtual schools' track record of students falling behind their peers academically or dropping-out at higher rates, states and districts continue to expand…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Finance
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
"Research Messages 2014" is a collection of summaries of research published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in 2014 in the context of changing economic, industrial, social and education conditions, organised under the following broad categories: (1) Productivity: to sustain and build Australia's human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Postsecondary Education