E-learning keeps potential failures from dropping out Julia Steiny projo.com The Providence Journal:
"Sixteen-year-old Danny drops into a chair at Woonsocket High’s E-Learning Academy like he’s a bag of loose parts. The adults ask him to tell me his story, but with a goofy smile, he mumbles that he doesn’t know anything. A sky-blue hoodie matches his sleepy blue eyes, emphasizing his sweet, baby-faced youth, even as a sparkly stud in one ear tries to be punk and tough.
Last fall Danny started his ninth-grade year at E-Learning, because he’d failed several classes in the eighth grade and needed an accelerated program to catch up to his class. He was not alone. Eighth-graders in his predicament are only one category of kids who come to the academy because they’ve fallen behind academically."
"Sixteen-year-old Danny drops into a chair at Woonsocket High’s E-Learning Academy like he’s a bag of loose parts. The adults ask him to tell me his story, but with a goofy smile, he mumbles that he doesn’t know anything. A sky-blue hoodie matches his sleepy blue eyes, emphasizing his sweet, baby-faced youth, even as a sparkly stud in one ear tries to be punk and tough.
Last fall Danny started his ninth-grade year at E-Learning, because he’d failed several classes in the eighth grade and needed an accelerated program to catch up to his class. He was not alone. Eighth-graders in his predicament are only one category of kids who come to the academy because they’ve fallen behind academically."
