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Calvert Education Services to Host First Distance Learning Summit in Baltimore
Calvert Education Services will host TIDES (Trends in Distance Education Summit), June 17-19 in Baltimore. The meeting will bring together school superintendents, Calvert Partners and the education community at large to discuss the distance education for Kindergarten through Eighth grade students.
"We welcome the opportunity to engage school administrators and industry thought leaders in a collaborative forum that is designed to enlighten, inform and challenge us in educating students in a virtual environment, " said, Jean Halle, Calvert's President and CEO.
Maree Sneed, Partner at the law firm of Hogan and Hartson will deliver the keynote address, "Navigating the Federal Legal Landscape: An Overview of the Players and Policies Shaping Education Today". Ms. Sneed advises school districts, educational associations and education companies on a wide range of legal issues. She has been counsel of record in two Supreme Court cases, is on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and serves as a board member and secretary of the National School Boards Foundation.
TIDES will be held at The Calvert Day School, founded in 1897 by Virgil Hillyer, a Harvard trained scholar and visionary credited with the evolution of distance education. Today, Calvert Education Services remains true to Hillyer's vision of making a world class education available to all students regardless of geography or economics. It maintains its rich traditions and time-tested curriculum which is blended with 21st century educational technology for a dynamic educational experience.
Calvert's distance learning solution offers school districts more academic control in managing students, greater teacher interaction, a balance of online and offline instruction, a world-renowned curriculum. It allows districts to retain the majority of their per-pupil revenue providing funding for other priorities in a difficult economic climate. Calvert, the trusted leader in distance learning for over a century serves schools in 50 states and 78 countries.
For more information, contact Michael Wilmeth, Director of Marketing, 410.785.3400
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