eSchool Stats in the US

Last week’s episode of “SuperNanny” included a scene with two girls engaged in online learning. However, it was a very different view than what I have come to know about the online systems here in Ontario. One of the interesting pieces in the fall-out from that episode, however, is some statistics about eLearning at the High School level in the United States.

According to the North American Council on Online Learning:

More than 90 percent of public colleges and universities offer online courses, and high schools have offered virtual learning for more than a decade. Virtual schools served 700,000 students in the 2005-06 school year, mostly at the high school level in the United States.

These are US Stats, but interesting nonetheless. Obviously eLearning is a staple of “higher” education, yet adoption at the High School level seems to remain painfully slow.