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• North Texas districts' online summer school clicks for teens (Dallas Morning News)
  Squeezing summer school between a job as a lifeguard and a community college class means a busy schedule for 18-year-old Kody Jackson. And like a growing number of area teens, he's turning to online summer school to finish his high school graduation requirements.



• Online learning helps schoolchildren fare better: study (New Kerala)
  Sydney, July 4: Educationists have developed a new web-based tool that helps primary schoolchildren to concentrate better and develop literacy skills.



• Online learning helps school children fare better: study (SiliconIndia)
  Type verification code in the box and submit. Sydney; Educationists have developed a new web-based tool that helps primary schoolchildren to concentrate better and develop literacy skills.



• Online learning helps children fare better (CIOL)
  The interactive educational software called 'Abracadabra' is designed to help struggling school students aged five to eight years learn basic literacy skills to equip them for the future.



• How the online learning network is growing strong (Independent)
  In a constantly changing business climate, with globalisation appearing to shrink the world on a monthly basis, it's not surprising that distance and online learning is booming. And nowhere is this more so than in the MBA market, where every year tens of thousands of students enrol on programmes at institutions hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of miles from their home.



• Drivers use Web sites to save on gas (Austin American-Statesman)
  A summer of expensive gas has drivers increasingly cruising the Web before they hit the road, from tracking the cheapest pump prices online to learning the fuel-saving secrets of "hypermilers."



• The new class: Local districts leading the online learning trend (Winona Daily News)
  The gravel road, the puppies gated in the yard and the horses grazing in the distance are tell-tale surroundings of a rural Winona County home, not a school.



• Is Online Learning For You? (Carteret County News-Times)
  More and more college students are taking classes online, according to a new survey by the College Board and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. About 3.2 million people took at least one college course online during the fall of 2005 term, compared to 2.3 million in the fall of 2004.



• 'Online High': Learning with little 'seat time' (The Muskegon Chronicle)
  GRAND RAPIDS -- Attention, weary students: Get your learning online and earn a get-out-of-school-free pass. An online program to launch this fall at Wyoming Rogers High School will give 100 students the chance to do school work on their own time.



• Report Reveals Growing Momentum in Online Learning (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
  Blackboard Inc. and Project Tomorrow today released the results of a survey that demonstrates growing momentum in online learning, providing new and timely data on its continued growth in the nation's schools to support both student learning and professional development for teachers.