Georgia's online academy popular, but is it effective?

As aptly put by one student enrolled in Georgia's Virtual Academy, "I do everything else on the computer, so why not go to school that way?" While Internet schools are still too new to prove whether they are effective learning environments, they continue to pop up across the country. As of January, there were 173 virtual charter schools teaching about 92,000 students in 18 states, according to the North American Council for Online Learning.

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