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| | Newsbytes News Network: Lotus, 30 Schools Launch Virtual High School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | During the press conference, attended by Newsbytes at Lotus headquarters in Cambridge, Lotus officials, school administrators, teachers, and students described the new Virtual High School as an opportunity to take courses not available locally; share their work with other teens around the globe; and, in rural areas, attend school more conveniently during inclement weather. |
 | | Lotus President Jeff Papows told the journalists that programs like Virtual High School help to develop the kinds of computer skills in students that will make them attractive as employees to companies like Lotus when the students graduate from school. |
 | | Of the 30 students in the Informal Geometry class, ten are from Alaska; and four attend schools run by the US Defense department in Jordan and Germany. |
| www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1997_Sept_29/ai_19800137 (601 words) |
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