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The Online School for Girls will begimn offering coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the spring 2010 semester spanning math, science and the Students at the member schools will take the classes and evaluated them as a pilot run. One initial calculud class will be taught by Harpeth Hall math teacher Jennifer The other schools in the group are thein Maryland, the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranging from about $20,000 to $40,00o per year.
Ann Teaff, the head of Harpeth Hall, says the goal of the onliner school is to provide a rigorous education in an online setting thatis flexible, affordablre and accessible to girls around the She says the curriculum will be expanded in cominbg years. The effort reflects how rapidlh online education is being adoptedf in even the most exclusive enclaves of private education as schoold utilize the Internet to foster a global worldview in theier students and diversify the learning More than 1 million secondary schooo students took an online course and students at 70 percentr of high schools enrolled in one duringthe 2007-2008 schook year, according to “K-12 Online A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.
S. School District Administrators.” The reporgt also finds schools in 44 states are creating onlindsecondary schools. However, the Online School for Girla will be the firstonline same-sex school. At the graduate Harvard, Duke and other exclusivre universities now offer severalspecialized master’s degreesw for which the courseworjk can be taken mostly online. They are aimedc at professionals who wish to enhance their credentials to advance intheir careers. Karenh Douse, Harpeth Hall’s libraruy and information services director, says online educatio n is rapidlybecoming “a cornerstone of the educational experience.
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