Similar Stories to ‘blended-learning’ Programs Grow In D.c., With Students Relying More On Computers on Bing News

When Ketcham Elementary School was selected to roll out a school-wide, computer-based learning initiative, Principal Maisha Riddlesprigger was skeptical about “putting kids in front of computers.” Less than two years later, the effort has brought her school a kind of celebrity status. Superintendents and state lawmakers from across the country have begun stopping by this well-wired school in a poor pocket of Southeast Washington — where nearly a third of the students are homeless — to see how they are learning.