The Center on Education Policy
November 2002
The Center on Education Policy here tackles "virtual education" and tries to pin it to the ground. If the Center had its way, on-line learning, for the foreseeable future, would only be accepted as a supplement to regular public schooling, not a replacement for brick-and-mortar education. (There is the nebulous suggestion that one day, after more is learned and an infinity of safeguards are put in place, it might become a substitute.) The report offers a set of lofty principles to govern all education reforms, predictable maxims that assume a uniform and monolithic school system. In other words, they stay squarely within the box of public-education-as-we-know-it rather than venturing outside. What a pity. See for yourself at http://www.ctredpol.org/democracypublicschools/preserving_principles_online_world_full.pdf.
