A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts (here and here). At the time the prediction was made, I was a skeptic (that it was possible, that it was inevitable, that is was even desirable) and have remained so.

For the prediction to approach a semblance of accuracy we should be seeing dramatic evidence by now that large percentages of U.S. high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools:

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