iety of an a vareit full and part-time learning. digital learning and the future of the education system with tom vander ark monday night on the communicators, on c-span 3. week, america artifex takes viewers into archives and historic sites around the country. at the outbreak of the civil war in the spring, 18 61, washington, dc was a lightly defended city and vulnerable with only one for located 12 miles south of the city and the confederate state of virginia just across the potomac. by 1865 the nation s capital had become the most fortified city in the world, with a ring of 70 armed forts encircling the city. we visited three of us arriving with- the surviving forsts dale floyd. right now we are in the museum of fort ward, which has a variety of different artifacts. one of the nice things is we the defenses of washington and it gives you a good idea of where they are today. we are at fort ward which is here. and today, we are also going to go to fort foote, which i
what are the components? in a formal setting, when it credit, there is usually online content and a teacher you interact with. ofis usually done as a group students that you are engaging .ith, but it is at a distance some students attend full-time online classes, and some part-time. a high school student may take three classes at their high school, and two classes online. how extensive right now is online digital learning? case-12 in k-12, there is probably 5 million students that took online classes. it is a significant percentage u.s. k-12million students that are out there. it is growing rapidly. most districts reported having or planning to add an online program. inis becoming the norm higher education. most students take at least a portion of their course load online. book thatte in your we can improve the quality of education in the u.s. without a big increase in investment. we do spend more than just about anybody in the world. i m confident that by incorpora
thank you. thatet me remind you also in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. [applause] senator goldwater s acceptance speech at the 1964 republican national convention, this weekend on american reel america. sunday on c-span3. house gaveled the out on thursday, steny hoyer talked about the upcoming legislative agenda with the incoming majority leader, kevin mccarthy. role taken up usually by the current majority leader, who is set to stay step down from his current position at the end of the month. this is from the house floor and is about 15 minutes. i suppose the majority leader-elect. a few weeks from now. but we ll be doing the colloquies and i appreciate his stance. we had the opportunity to have lunch. i m hopeful we can have a very productive rich: as i m sure this house and relationship as i m sure the house and the country hopes. i m pleased to yield to the majority lead hrn elect. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i look forward to a very st
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people in the very near future will be a combination of blended and online learning. host: and when you talk about online learning, what are some of the components of that? guest: so it, in a formal setting when it s a for credit, there s usually online content and a teacher you interact with, and it s usually done as a cohort, so there s a group of students that you re engaging with. but it s all at a distance. some students attend full-time online classes and some part time. so a high school student may take three classes at their high school and take two classes online. host: how extensive right now is online digital learning in the u.s.? guest: well, in k-12 just at secondary schools, high schools primarily, there s probably five million students that took online classes. so that s a pretty significant percentage of the 50 million u.s. k-12 students that are out there. so it s growing very, very rapidly. most districts report either having or planning to add an on