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In an Age of Anxiety, Can Online School Be a “Happy Place”?
Monday, February 24
3:23–4:23 p.m.
Online schools were launched to serve a niche group of students whose gifts and challenges made traditional education a bad fit. Today a broad range of students flourish emotionally, socially and academically in online schools and their nurturing communities.
Connecting to other iconoclastic learners and individualized attention make online school the “happy place” for many students. Will today’s epidemic of youth anxiety and depression mean the need for online learning expands beyond the niche?
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