Can Online Learning Be Better This Fall? These Educators Think So
A new national effort aims to deliver better online learning to any district that wants it. Some worry the program is overpromising.
Wayne Banks is a middle school math teacher and principal in residence for KIPP charter schools. These days, like many teachers around the country, the 29-year-old is working from his apartment in Brooklyn, New York.
Banks has never been formally trained to teach online, but that hasn't stopped him from trying to make his classes as engaging and challenging as possible.
"I really took the opportunity in March to be like, 'I just have to figure this out.' [It was] a do or die for me," Banks says.
Now, with beginning the fall semester online-only, Banks is part of a national effort to improve the quality of distance learning. The goal: Deliver better online learning, at no charge, to
