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The tiny town of Branson, Colo., has about 100 residents. But its elementary school has nearly 1,000 students -- most enrolled online. A look at how online education has made a difference in some rural communities proves that the on-line resource is a huge success.

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3 Strategies Could Increase D.C. Enrollment, Study Says The District could add as many as 20,000 students to its public and public charter schools by 2015 with the right mix of academic reform, affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization, a study by a consortium of think tanks concludes. Merit Pay Could Ruin Teacher Teamwork I have been studying successful urban public charter school networks, arguably the most encouraging story in education, and listening to their leaders. Many of them know D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and share her views, except for one important part of her reform plan: incentive bonus... A Fiscal Lesson for the Ages Kerri Reddick-Morgan lives a solidly middle-class life. She has a master's degree, a good job as a marketing director for a nonprofit group and rents a nice townhouse in Woodbridge. But as Wall Street, major investment banks and markets around the world have come unglued, she has had to reassure her... Interim Chief Takes The Schools' Helm After two years in which Superintendent John E. Deasy dominated the Prince George's County education landscape, the spotlight is now on a first-term school board and a man sometimes described as Deasy's double. A Head Start for the Medical-Minded Juno Love started at Wheaton High School without a brain, but the students fixed that. The 29-inch-tall manikin soon had a wrinkly, reddish frontal lobe, a blue parietal lobe, a yellow occipital lobe and a green temporal lobe.