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Students From the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School Discuss Physics, Education With Nation’s Top Graduate Students
February 4, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
It’s every high school science nerd’s dream: an opportunity to chat with graduate students and ask about all kinds of stranger-than-fiction physics phenomena. That dream was realized for nearly twenty Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (PA Cyber) students who are members of the Cutting Edge Science (CES) Club, a highly interactive extracurricular program that explores a wide variety of science topics.
With several club members interested in the physics phenomena, for their January meeting, CES advisor Caroline Hardman arranged for a special online discussion with Hiro Miyake, a graduate student at MIT, and Nabil Iqbal, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics and a former graduate student at MIT.
Miyake studies matter at temperatures billionths of degrees above absolute zero with lasers. Iqbal’s work focuses on attempting to understand the physics of black holes in the framework provided by string theory.
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Salisbury Considers Creating Cyber School
January 29, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Salisbury Township School District is considering starting its own online school in an effort to win back students who left to attend cyber charter schools and to offer more courses to students who attend its brick-and-mortar schools.
The online school, tentatively called VAST, or Virtual Academy Salisbury Township, would be operated in conjunction with the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit’s proposed Virtual Learning Program, which hopes to enlist other member school districts.
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Educational choice in Pa. expands, but vouchers remain out of reach
January 21, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Pennsylvania boasts a robust charter school system that includes cyber charter schools; the Education Improvement Tax Credit, or EITC, which provides an average scholarship of $1,000 to low-income families who want their children to attend private schools; and rules that allow parents to teach their students at home.
The key is to improve education options, said Ken Kilpatrick, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools, which represents charter schools in the state.
“It’s families making a choice about what school will give my child the best educational future,” Kilpatrick said. “Competition is forcing districts to think about how they can improve.”
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