First and foremost, PLATO’s online language arts curriculum is intended to help schools ensure that they are preparing students for college and career. The rigorous and engaging online lessons are aligned to the Common Core’s College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards. Whether it’s poetry, prose, or exposition, by implementing PLATO’s online curriculum, schools can ensure that their students:

• Demonstrate independence
• Build strong content knowledge
• Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
• Comprehend as well as critique
• Value evidence
• Use technology and digital media strategically and capably
• Come to understand other perspectives and cultures

Online courses also give students the benefit of learning at the pace and place of their choosing.