EDUCATION

"Schools that have implemented this model have found more students want to come there," Gupta said.

"The internet is the eighth wonder of the world," Paige said in a statement following the event. "It brings unlimited information, entire libraries, courses, and instruction to anywhere you have a modem and a server. Now, technology even removes the distance of time and space and allows us to share valuable information. Rural schools are no longer isolated."

"This is a promising idea and a powerful idea that addresses a problem not only in North Carolina but in the rest of the country," Callan said.

"UM is one of only a handful of institutions that has been able to convince us that what they will do is instigate institutional change," Noxon said. "Programs like this are very important, and with each one, they set a standard."

The Montana University System does a reasonably good job of attracting the state’s high school students to its four-year campuses, but needs to do a better job getting the word out on two-year degrees, regents…

Nationwide, about 200,000 adults have become certified to teach under alternative accreditation state laws since 1985, when such laws began to change.

(Be sure to take a look at the rating criteria- Very intersting!- Russ)

When accomplished, Michigan would become the second state to provide an entire grade of students with some type of computer device. In 2001, former Maine Governor Angus King announced a similar initiative to provide a laptop computer to every seventh- and eight-grader in that state.

Rewards were paid to public, private and charter schools for students in second through ninth grades if at least 55 percent of the students in an entire grade at a school met growth targets.