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The Online School for Girls will begin offerin coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the spriny 2010 semester spanning math, science and the humanities. Studentws at the member schools will take the classese and evaluate them as apilog run. One initial calculus class will be taugh by Harpeth Hall math teacheeJennifer Webster. The other schools in the group are the in the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranging fromabout $20,000 to $40,00o0 per year. Ann Teaff, the head of Harpeth says the goal of the online school is to provide a rigorouas education in an onlinee setting thatis flexible, affordable and accessible to girlws around the world.
She says the curriculum will be expanderd incoming years. The effortg reflects how rapidly online educatiobn is being adopted in even the most exclusive enclaves of privater education as schools utilize the Internet to foste r a global worldview in their students and diversify thelearning experience. More than 1 million secondar y school students took an onlines course and students at 70 percent of high schoolsa enrolled in one duringthe 2007-2008 school year, according to “K-12 Online A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. Schoolk District Administrators.” The report also finds schools in 44 statesx are creating onlinesecondary schools.
However, the Onlin e School for Girls will be the firstonlinee same-sex school. At the graduate level, Harvard, Duke and other exclusivs universities now offer severalspecializedf master’s degrees for whicyh the coursework can be taken mostly They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhancew their credentials to advance in their Karen Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and information services director, says onlinew education is rapidly becoming “w cornerstone of the educational experience.
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