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Former Ed Secretary founds Web-based school.(William Bennett, K12)(Brief Article)

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William Bennett, a former U.S. Secretary of Education, has teamed up with Knowledge Universe Learning Group to start a private online school aimed at home-taught children, Wired News reports. K12, as the K-12 school is known, launched this fall. Students can access the curriculum for about $1,000 a year. "If the technology we build is any good, every school in the country is going to be interested in this," says chief technology advisor David Gelernter, a noted Yale …

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