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Q: What is Internet home school?
A: Internet Home School is your online K-12 homeschooling solution. Escape the “one size fits all” mentality of the educational industrial complex. We offer affordable, flexible, and transparent programs. We support your child’s individuality and parent needs. We provide a safe, effective, and engaging learning environment for your family.
Q: How many people use the Internet at school?
A: The most recent Pew Internet Project survey finds that 87% of all youth between the ages of 12 and 17 use the internet. That translates into about 21 million people. Of those 21 million online teens, 78% (or about 16 million students) say they use the internet at school.
Q: What types of Internet connections are used in schools?
A: In 2001, the majority of public schools (55 percent) reported using T1/DS1 lines, a continuous and much faster type of Internet connection than dial-up connections, and 5 percent of schools used dial-up connections ( table 3 ). In 2001, 85 percent of public schools used broadband connections to access the Internet ( table 4 ).
Q: Does school access to the internet differ by school characteristics?
A: As reported previously (Cattagni and Farris 2001), there have been virtually no differences in school access to the Internet by school characteristics since 1999. Public schools have made consistent progress in expanding Internet access in instructional rooms 1, from 3 percent in 1994 to 77 percent in 2000 and 87 percent in 2001 ( table 2 ).