Author(s)

NingQian Ding¹, WeiJie Tang^2*

Affiliation(s)

¹College of  Languages and Cultures, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China. 

²Southwest University, Chongqing 402460, China.

Corresponding Author

WeiJie Tang

ABSTRACT

The U.S. has accumulated rich experience in K12 online education.Its policies and regulations have shown remarkable maturity in accreditation, quality evaluation, accountability and monitoring, and financial support.In particular, the Emphasis on an extremely strict accreditation system, clearly set standards for quality evaluation, strengthened accountability and monitoring mechanism, along with funding schemes transparently exercised.On the contrary, there is still a developing exploratory phase for China's management model of K-12 level online education.It is also hoped that this may be of some use as a reference when formulating K-12 online education policies and regulations within the Mainland of China.

KEYWORDS

K12 online education; Management of online education; Policies for education; Basic education development

CITE THIS PAPER

NingQian Ding, WeiJie Tang. Insights from U.S. K-12 online education policies and regulations. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2024, 2(3): 55-58. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjes3011.

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