【正文】 ing local schools to provide them with access to laboratories, gymnasiums, art studios, theaters and net result is that home schooling is not as isolated as it was all, technology has been the supreme equalizer by providing home schoolers with educational products that often surpass those available in regular , the homeschool calendar is flexible and can include family vocations as school and study schooling is at least as successful as regular schooling, and often superior, as measured by standardized Knowledge Universe營(yíng)業(yè)額超過(guò)十億多美元的大品牌公司“知識(shí)宇宙”，是一家最為廣泛的教育競(jìng)爭(zhēng)商與供應(yīng)商，由 Oracle 億萬(wàn)富翁總經(jīng)理拉里?埃利森和有風(fēng)險(xiǎn)債券名聲的邁克爾?米爾肯共同創(chuàng)建，目的是想提供一種終生的教育產(chǎn)品和服務(wù)。居家自學(xué)同一般學(xué)校教育相比至少是一樣成功，要是照標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化考試來(lái)衡量，則常常勝過(guò)一籌。最重要的是科技業(yè)已成為最高平衡器，提供給居家自學(xué)者的教育產(chǎn)品常常超越一般學(xué)校所擁有的產(chǎn)品。居家自學(xué)的家長(zhǎng)們通過(guò)相互溝通，強(qiáng)烈要求地方學(xué)校為他們提供實(shí)驗(yàn)室、健身房、藝術(shù)工作室、劇院和圖書(shū)館之便利，他們已扭轉(zhuǎn)了趨勢(shì)。最初家長(zhǎng)是出于宗教原因使他們對(duì)一些課程的授課方法有異議，現(xiàn)在由于擔(dān)心孩子的安全及教學(xué)質(zhì)量使得居家自學(xué)流行開(kāi)來(lái)。s major corporate partner in this venture was TechNet, a Silicon Valley political activist Home Schooling 盡管居家自學(xué)的人數(shù)估計(jì)在100萬(wàn)上下，但很多人認(rèn)為實(shí)際人數(shù)會(huì)更高。 much smaller than the parable elementary, middle or high school room from which they draw students, these alternative schools are “chartered” by boards of education to charter authorizes the school to operate and to receive public were 800 charter schools in the United States in a group of parents is heavily a student transfers to a charter school, the district loses funding because the educational allotment for that student is given to the charter is too soon to gauge the effectiveness of charter schools, but proponents believe that the special attention and smaller size will automatically make a states limit the number of charter schools, but a recent breakthrough in California may spread to other states: A coalition of parents and business executives, led by John Doerr, the Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist, succeeded in removing California39。由克萊納?珀金斯風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資家 John Doerr領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的家長(zhǎng)和企業(yè)經(jīng)理同盟成功地去除了對(duì)加利福尼亞的公管民辦學(xué)校的封頂。但支持者卻相信特別的關(guān)注和較小的規(guī)模自然會(huì)帶來(lái)變化。當(dāng)一個(gè)學(xué)生轉(zhuǎn)到一所公管民辦學(xué)校，這個(gè)地區(qū)就失去一份資金，因?yàn)檫@個(gè)學(xué)生的教育金配額被轉(zhuǎn)到了這個(gè)公管民辦學(xué)校。1998年，美國(guó)有800所這類(lèi)公管民辦學(xué)校。 method is probably the most controversial and invasive: Public schools are actually taken over and run by the Edison Project at a Whittle, president of the Edison Project, was also the creator of Channel Edison Project features courses such as “Technology as a Second Language”。愛(ài)迪生項(xiàng)目有“技術(shù)是第二語(yǔ)言”這類(lèi)課程，需要更多的課時(shí)，包括暑期，要定期對(duì)教師和學(xué)生的表現(xiàn)作出評(píng)價(jià)。但事實(shí)上愛(ài)迪生項(xiàng)目接管和管理了公立學(xué)校并產(chǎn)生利潤(rùn)。以下扼要地介紹這方面的努力。s Discovery Centers of America claim some 20,000 students who learn language skills, logical thinking and cooperative Centers seek to address the “Whole child.” One of their techniques is to give each child plenty of physical space and permission to move around, which they believe liberates a child39。s viewers outperform nonviewers on standardized Blue39。s monthly newsletter for toy pany, LeapFrog, teaches reading, spelling, and the alphabet with handheld toys that bine touch, sight and on a phonics system developed by Stanford professor Robert Calfee, LeapFrog toys are marketed directly to schools and through toy Blue39。 less reliant on cutting edge technology, the following panies, products and services are also entering the education market: British publishing giant Pearson owns Penguin Books and the Financial a series of acquisitions, mergers and alliances, it also owns or manages the education divisions of Simon amp。美國(guó)兒童發(fā)現(xiàn)中心聲稱(chēng)大約有兩萬(wàn)名學(xué)生在中心學(xué)習(xí)語(yǔ)言技術(shù)、邏輯思維及相互配合能力。其觀眾在標(biāo)準(zhǔn)考試中的成績(jī)要比不看此節(jié)目的人要好。以斯坦福教授羅伯特?卡爾斐開(kāi)發(fā)的語(yǔ)音系統(tǒng)為基礎(chǔ)，跳蛙玩具直接進(jìn)入學(xué)校進(jìn)行營(yíng)銷(xiāo)或通過(guò)玩具店銷(xiāo)售。商店里備有電腦，孩子們可以隨時(shí)上電子網(wǎng)，那是公司為孩子制作的每月時(shí)事通訊。聰明小丑是一家適合高消費(fèi)階層的教育類(lèi)的玩具商店，連鎖店遍布全美。這是世界上最大的教育出版社。it was created by text book publisher Addison , ERater automatically score essays for syntax, vocabulary, and is still being developed by ETS: The goal is for 85% agreement between ERater and human ，玩具和電視Books, Toys, and Television 盡管對(duì)尖端技術(shù)的依賴(lài)不是很大，以下的公司、產(chǎn)品和服務(wù)同樣也在打入教育市場(chǎng)： 英國(guó)出版大亨皮爾遜擁有企鵝圖書(shū)和金融時(shí)報(bào)。s test result are further diminishing the role of the , originally developed for the Corps, evaluates reading, grammar, and math , designed by the Educational Testing Service(ETS)and the Force, tests both knowledge and problem solving ability, it also gives corrective remends study plans based on a student39。教育考試中心還在對(duì)電子閱卷機(jī)作改進(jìn)：目標(biāo)是讓電子評(píng)估與人工評(píng)估的一致性達(dá)到85%。教科書(shū)出版社艾迪生韋斯利研制的指南針，根據(jù)學(xué)生的考試結(jié)果推薦學(xué)習(xí)計(jì)劃。最初為美國(guó)海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)開(kāi)發(fā)的微型貓，用來(lái)評(píng)估閱讀、語(yǔ)法和數(shù)學(xué)的技能。 Learning Systems recently partnered with MCI to create over 100 pilot centers where students can receive highly sophisticated technology training after 40 such centers, dubbed the Caliber Learning Network, have served over 30,000 will soon aggressively market its services。40多個(gè)類(lèi)似的中心仿照Caliber Learning Network，已為3萬(wàn)多位學(xué)生提供了服務(wù)。teachers function as life and electronic mentors offer oneonone academic and career pany39。洛杉磯剛選擇成績(jī)！為25所公共學(xué)校提供輔導(dǎo)?，F(xiàn)實(shí)生活和電子良師提供一對(duì)一的學(xué)術(shù)和職業(yè)咨詢(xún)。它為大約兩萬(wàn)名學(xué)生提供個(gè)別輔導(dǎo)。加特那集團(tuán)預(yù)測(cè)這個(gè)數(shù)字在2001年還會(huì)增至80%。 adults, there39。這家新的企業(yè)由大提供商知識(shí)宇宙擁有。s”: exploration, expression, and pany offers a program to link pen pals。s MaMaMedia, an Internet educational pany that claims to have 90,000 registered users under the age of by MIT graduates, MaMaMedia seeks parental, rather than teacher, endorsement of its content and pany39。公司提供與筆友聯(lián)絡(luò)的軟件；傳授諸如素描、繪畫(huà)和攝影等爪哇工作室技術(shù)，提供讓青少年談?wù)撍麄儗W(xué)習(xí)和生活的網(wǎng)頁(yè)。由麻省理工學(xué)院畢業(yè)生創(chuàng)建的媽媽傳媒要求家長(zhǎng)而不是教師對(duì)其內(nèi)容及鏈接進(jìn)行選擇。國(guó)際生產(chǎn)力尖端在全美150個(gè)左右的培訓(xùn)中心培訓(xùn)約100萬(wàn)名員工，還可通過(guò)遠(yuǎn)程教育實(shí)施培訓(xùn)。電腦學(xué)校聲稱(chēng)全校有3萬(wàn)名學(xué)生通過(guò)電子郵件進(jìn)行計(jì)算機(jī)培訓(xùn)、現(xiàn)場(chǎng)聊天、診斷錯(cuò)誤和個(gè)別指導(dǎo)。它還為家庭個(gè)別教學(xué)提供光盤(pán)，或針對(duì)某個(gè)公司的需要專(zhuān)門(mén)設(shè)計(jì)一整套計(jì)算機(jī)課程程序。MindQ目前有兩百多家用戶(hù)，如，國(guó)際商業(yè)機(jī)器公司、Sun、和微軟公司。 Computer Curriculum Corporation is the largest K12 software 39。公司提供追蹤個(gè)別學(xué)生和全班學(xué)生之需求與進(jìn)步的程序，使教師能判斷學(xué)生的不足之處并每周給出進(jìn)步情況的報(bào)告。 Learning Company and Broderbund is the result of a recent merger between Broderbund Software(which produces Carmen San Diego and Myst)and the Learning Company(which produced MayaQuest), this new pany has almost doubled its registered users to about 20 of the most popular software programs are Click Art, Family Tree Maker, The Print Shop, Games Strategies, Red Orb Kids, and Mudball Wall(which build the logic skills of 8 to 12 yearolds).計(jì)算機(jī)課程公司是從幼兒園至12年級(jí)的軟件最大的提供商。這家新公司注冊(cè)用戶(hù)增加了1倍，達(dá)到2000萬(wàn)。軟件以一個(gè)機(jī)器人工廠為背景，向?qū)W生解釋設(shè)計(jì)制造機(jī)器人涉及到的能量、光學(xué)、磁性、工程學(xué)和機(jī)械裝置原理及應(yīng)用。公司采用星球大戰(zhàn)的樣式為1