Samantha Whittle, in a guest opinion column in the Tucson Citizen, discusses how comparable online high schools are to traditional ones and that they are even better in some respects. She begins:

Today’s generation of always-on-the-go, technology-savvy youth commands a learning environment providing fast information, flexible schedules and personalized attention.

Virtual schools provide just that – a self-paced, self-directed, individualized learning setting.

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Missouri Virtual Education program, in its plans to develop a virtual high school for fall 2007, has selected Kaplan to provide its online high school curriculum. Kaplan will partner with eCollege to provide a platform and software developer BocaVox to “provide course content, curriculum development, online instruction and administration tools,” according to Kaplan. Northwest Missouri State University Center of Information Technology will serve as project manager.

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Loyal readers will note that we have begun to add additional online high schools. While these are not sponsors of BestOnlineHighSchools.com, they do have programs available.

They are certainly worth a look. In the coming weeks, more schools will be added.