This is Where Public Education is Headed

if people don't wake the hell up. While online education has some positive uses, having it to replace brick-and-mortar schools is especially damaging to young children. People are peddling this stuff who have utterly no concept of education or child development.

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A nation of sociopaths. That's all we need is more of them:

We hear opinions on virtual schools from well-known education scholars Jonathon Kozol and Diane Ravitch. We investigate one such virtual school, the Massachusetts Virtual Academy in Greenfield, Massachusetts. We talk with the superintendent of schools, Susan Hollins, who was the driving force behind the opening of that school in 2010, and we also speak with two Greenfield School Committee members, Maryelen Calderwood and Andrew Blais, who opposed it. Finally, we turn to early childhood education scholar Nancy Carlsson-Paige, who talks about the vitally important social, emotional and cognitive needs of young children that are in danger of not being met by virtual schools.