North Carolina’s Learn and Earn Online allows high school students to take college courses over the Internet. A new survey published in Education Next suggests that there is varied support for such programs, depending on the justification given.
Respondents were generally opposed public funding of online courses for dropouts, which is one of the groups Learn and Earn Online was designed to target.
Support for online education declines precipitously, however, when the subject turns to ?children who drop out of high school.? For those students, just 40 percent of respondents support public funding for courses taken over the Internet. Another 30 percent neither support nor oppose public funding for online education for students who drop out of high school, and 31 percent oppose funding.
Overall, nearly 70 percent of respondents supported online courses.
