Summer School Goes to the Beach

摘要

Ingenious teenagers can find every manner of reason to take a pass on summer school: There's the two-week family vacation in the middle of the four-week session, not to mention the potential for a day job scooping ice cream—or the fear that they might bomb at cramming a semester's worth of work into a month. In the digital age, however, none is reason enough. The rapid spread of online learning at the secondary level—experts estimate that more than half of all school districts offer some virtual coursework, up from just 30 percent two years ago—is now creating "anywhere, anytime" flexibility for summer students, too.