Sketchy Grades for Cyber Schools : "Cyber schools -- where students complete all coursework online using home computers -- are a big hit with parents, who are signing up their children as quickly as the virtual doors open. However, test results for 2003 show students at many cyber schools are not measuring up to state standards or to their peers who attend brick-and-mortar schools."
Comment: Confusing article...not quite sure whether they are criticizing for-profit schools or online learning. Regardless...test results are being used as an indicator of weaker academic performance for online students. Before I would even entertain that as an indictment of online learning, I'd like to see how courses were organized, what types of tools were being used, if students were given assistance adapting to the medium, if instructors were competent facilitators, if learning outcomes were linked to media selection, if....and so on.