Mix 93.1 » elementary school http://mix931fm.com Today's Hit Music Wed, 22 May 2013 04:03:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Texas School Has Been Misspelling Its Own Name for Nearly Nine Years http://mix931fm.com/texas-school-misspells-name/ http://mix931fm.com/texas-school-misspells-name/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 21:00:25 +0000 Don Deane http://thefw.com/?p=121300 An elementary school in Forth Worth, Texas, is finally correcting its name after having misspelled it for nearly nine years. Oops! That can’t bode well for literacy rates.

]]> http://mix931fm.com/texas-school-misspells-name/feed/ 0 MSNBC Online Courses for Elementary and High School Students? http://mix931fm.com/online-courses-elementary-high-school/ http://mix931fm.com/online-courses-elementary-high-school/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:00:02 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=59947 In an effort to accommodate students with varying levels of advancement and in reaction to state budgetary cuts, at least 30 states in the US now let elementary and high school students take all their courses online.

According to Evergreen Education Group, a consulting firm that works with online schools, an estimated 250,000 students nationwide are enrolled in full-time virtual schools, a 40 percent increase in the last three years. And the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, a trade group, says two million kids take at least one class online.

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