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The Online School for Girls will begin offering coursesthis September, includin two this fall and four in the springf 2010 semester spanning math, science and the Students at the member schools will take the classe s and evaluate them as a pilot run. One initial calculuxs class will be taught by Harpeth Hall math teache rJennifer Webster. The other schools in the group are the in the in Ohio andin Connecticut, all with tuition ranging from about $20,000 to $40,000 per year. Ann Teaff, the head of Harpethh Hall, says the goal of the online schooo is to provide a rigorous education in an online setting that is affordable and accessible to girls aroundthe world.
She says the curriculum will be expanded incominf years. The effort reflects how rapidly onlinew education is being adopted in even the most exclusivs enclaves of private education as schools utilize the Internet to fostere a global worldview in their studentes and diversify the learning More than 1 million secondary schoolk students took an online course and studentws at 70 percent of high schoolss enrolled in one duringthe 2007-2008 school according to “K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators.” The reporgt also finds schools in 44 states are creatinv onlinesecondary schools.
However, the Onlinde School for Girls will be the firs tonline same-sex school. At the graduate level, Harvard, Duke and othed exclusive universities now offer severalspecialized master’s degreeds for which the coursework can be takenn mostly online. They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhance theire credentials to advance in their Karen Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and information services says online education is rapidlh becoming “a cornerstone of the educational experience.
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