From the editorial page:

It is an astonishing number. At Wake Technical Community College there are 13,505 registrations for virtual classes. Online education, once viewed skeptically in higher education, is clearly the wave of the future, and particularly when that future is uncertain because of a troubled economy. People who have jobs but want better ones can, by enrolling in online classes, keep working and keep up with schoolwork.

If only someone would write about virtual schooling in the K-12 public school system…