The reality and the hype behind online learning and the "School of One"
Today’s Daily News has a story about a new negative evaluation of DOE’s much vaunted “School of One” program. This study, which found no significant achievement gains from the program, was quietly placed on the Research Alliance website in the middle of summer with no apparent outreach to the media or the public.
This contrasts with the huge publicity machinepromoting this online program that has operated since its inception as a pilot started in the summer of 2009.
The School of One is an online or “blended” learning math program, combining online with small group instruction. It was started by Joel Rose when he was at DOE, using an algorithm devised by Wireless
