Potholes in the Road to Virtual Schooling

Glass, Gene V. "Potholes in the Road to Virtual Schooling." School Administrator 67.4 [2010]:32.

This journal is about the problems that virtual schools are having. This is such a growing field that the question is raised whether or not teacher quality is an issue. It talks about different virtual schools and how they are getting money to runs these schools. One of these schools recieves about $20 million every year. They have 3,000 students that attend this online school. There are no buildings, no buses, no cafeteria, it is just a virtual school with one office located in a high rise building.

According to this journal nearly one in every 50 students are attending an online high school either for credit recovery or all classes online. In a few states, in order to get your high school diploma, you have to attend at least one online class. Gene Glass brings up the debate that legislators have to decide issues on effectiveness and funding.

This was written by Gene Glass who is a professor. This is an up to date journal since it was written in 2010. This article talk about the problem if on line schools are effective. He also states that this is expanding so much that it is hard to have up to date information. This is written so the average person can understand what he is talking about.

My impression on this article is that there has to be studies done to see if all virtual schools are effective and where is the money going to some of these schools.