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The Online School for Girl will begin offering courses this including two this fall and four in the springh 2010 semesterspanning math, science and the Students at the member schools will take the classez and evaluate them as a piloft run. One initial calculus class will be taughrt by Harpeth Hall math teacherJennifer Webster. The othed schools in the group are thein Maryland, the in Ohio and in all with tuition rangingt from about $20,000 to $40,000 per year.
Ann Teaff, the head of Harpeth Hall, says the goal of the onlined school is to provide a rigorous education in an online settinbg thatis flexible, affordable and accessible to girls around the She says the curriculum will be expanded in cominb years. The effort reflectes how rapidly online education is being adopted in even the most exclusive enclaves of private education as schools utilize the Interneyt to foster a global worldview in their student and diversify thelearning experience.
More than 1 millioj secondary school students took an online course and students at 70 perceng of high schools enrolled in one duringthe 2007-2008 schoo l year, according to “K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-upo of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators.” The reporf also finds schools in 44 statesa are creating onlinesecondary However, the Online School for Girls will be the firsgt online same-sex school. At the graduate Harvard, Duke and other exclusive universitie s now offer severalspecialized master’s degrees for whichg the coursework can be taken mostlyu online.
They are aimed at professionalx who wish to enhance their credentials to advance intheier careers. Karen Douse, Harpetgh Hall’s library and information services says online education is rapidlybecoming “a cornerston of the educational experience.”
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