According to a new report from the National Education Policy Center in 2012 , too many students enrolled in virtual or blended learning schools are performing poorly , leading educators to fear that “ dodgy ” online programmes are threatening the existence of their higher quality students . “They are really phenomenal at marketing their schools,” Roxana Marachi, an associate professor in the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San Jose State University, told The Hechinger Report last year. The author of the report was reportedly shocked to find that both fully online schools and blended learning schools tended to fare worse than traditional schools , describing it as a " red flag . " Six solutions were suggested , the main one being - to slow or stop the growth of online schools completely until the reasons for such poor performances were identified .
According to a new report from the National Education Policy Center in 2012 , too many students enrolled in virtual or blended learning schools are performing poorly , leading educators to fear that “ dodgy ” online programmes are threatening the existence of their higher quality students . The author of the report was reportedly shocked to find that both fully online schools and blended learning schools tended to fare worse than traditional schools , describing it as a " red flag . " Six solutions were suggested , the main one being - to slow or stop the growth of online schools completely until the reasons for such poor performances were identified .