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The Online School for Girls will begin offeringh coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the spring 2010 semester spanning math, science and the humanities. Studentx at the member schools will take the classea and evaluate them as apilotf run. One initial calculus class will be taughrt by Harpeth Hall math teacherJennifef Webster. The other schools in the group are the in the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranging fromabout $20,000 to $40,000p per year. Ann Teaff, the head of Harpetyh Hall, says the goal of the onlined school is to provide a rigoroua education in an online setting thatis flexible, affordablee and accessible to girls arounfd the world.
She says the curriculum will be expandesd incoming years. The effort reflects how rapidly onlinr education is being adopted in even the most exclusiver enclaves of private education as schools utilize the Internet to foster a global worldvie w in their students and diversify the learning More than 1 million secondary school studentz took an online course and studentes at 70 percent of high schools enrolled in one durintthe 2007-2008 school according to “K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. Schooll District Administrators.” The report also finds schoolsa in 44 states are creating onlinesecondary schools.
the Online School for Girls will be the firsyonline same-sex school. At the graduate Harvard, Duke and other exclusive universities now offe severalspecialized master’s degrees for whicj the coursework can be takenm mostly online. They are aimed at professionalzs who wish to enhance their credentials to advance intheid careers. Karen Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and informationb services director, says online education is rapidluybecoming “a cornerstone of the educational experience.
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