Possible Ed Policy topic books

The Virtual Highschool - Teaching Generation V

A Classroom of One: How Online Learning is Changing our Schools and Colleges

Global Perspectives on E-Learning Rhetoric and Reality
Alison A. Carr-Chellman, Pennsylvania State University
© 2005 288 pages
Sage Publications, Inc

School Choice - new book with review of research

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/vu-nbo041009.php

Kansas Public Policy on Virtual Schools

http://kansaseducation.wordpress.com/virtual-schools/

ps-at-home --- Public School-At-Home Programs

http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/blogs/HS-PSatHome/?cat=96

Dissertation

Clemens, Debra Jane. "Homeschool Parents' Perspective on Virtual Public Schools." Ph.D., Gonzaga University, 2002.

Referenced on: http://www.indiana.edu/~homeeduc/topic_demographics.html

Nearly Nine of Ten Oregonians Would Opt Out of Regular Public Schools

http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2009/01/05/oregon-education-opinion-survey-results/

Paper: Home School Parents’ Dilemma in front of the Internet

http://www.editlib.org/?fuseaction=Reader.NoAccess&paper_id=22485

Sun, S. & Wang, C. (2006). Home School Parents’ Dilemma in front of the Internet. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (pp. 2685-2689). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Conference Information

Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2006
Orlando, Florida, USA March 19, 2006
Caroline Crawford, Dee Anna Willis, Roger Carlsen, Ian Gibson, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price & Roberta Weber
AACE

More Information on SITE Table of Contents

Authors

Sunny Shuxiang Sun, Charles Xiaoxue Wang, Georgia State University, USA

Abstract

Abstract: This study examines the dilemmas facing thousands of home schooling parents: “To use or not to use” the Internet. Parents choose home schooling primarily to protect their children from the bad and unsafe learning environment. Yet the Internet, both as a learning means and learning resources, is a widely open environment with all the potential harms that home school parents worry about. This paper describes the study background and rationale, and offers research questions in examining influential factors behind their dilemmas. It shares with its audience the implications for home school parents in supervising their children and instructional design for virtual schools for home