Bricks and Mortar – The Making of a Real Education at the Stanford Online High School - Softcover

Scarborough, Jeffrey; Ravaglia, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575867397 ISBN 13: 9781575867397

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2015

Synopsis

Online learning is transforming how and what teachers teach, and even who - or what - teachers are. In the midst of these changes, the characteristics that have historically defined a high-quality education are easily lost. Not only content knowledge, but also ways of thinking are the hallmarks of the well-educated individual, and these latter qualities are not so easily acquired online. Or are they? This volume shows how a group of online-learning believers built the best high school in the world without laying a single brick: the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). By chronicling SOHS' approach to curriculum, gifted education, and school community over SOHS' first seven years, Bricks and Mortar makes the case that technology and the best traditional methodologies in education are not, in fact, mutually exclusive.

About this title

About the Author

Jeffrey Scarborough is director of curriculum at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS), where he is responsible for the development of the core curriculum. Raymond Ravaglia is senior associate dean and director of Stanford University Pre-Collegiate Studies and the principal architect of SOHS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575867397
• ISBN 13: 9781575867397
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224