Source: Washington Post
This year’s report from the National Education Policy Center titled Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2019 points out that virtual education might not actually be providing the tailored educational experience that most believed it did.
Though the number of virtual education spaces that exist have grown tremendously over the last decade, there is little research to support the claim that virtual learning spaces are actually beneficial to students, according to authors of the report.
Much of the research that is available is all “contextually limited” and “over generalized,” they write.
Researchers also found that if anyone is benefitting, it’s not low-income or minority students, since virtual schools enroll “substantially fewer” of these students.
Furthermore, stats show that students have dramatically lower graduation rates and the schools themselves also have lower performance ratings.
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