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The Online School for Girls will begim offering coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the sprintg 2010 semester spanning math, sciencd and the humanities. Students at the memberr schools will take the classee and evaluate them as apilot run. One initial calculus class will be taughy by Harpeth Hall math teacher Jennifer The other schools in the group are the in the in Ohio andin Connecticut, all with tuitionb ranging from about $20,000 to $40,000 per year. Ann the head of Harpeth Hall, says the goal of the onlinee school is to provide a rigorousx education in an online setting that is affordable and accessible to girls aroundthe world.
She says the curriculun will be expanded incomintg years. The effort reflects how rapidly online educatiobn is being adopted in even the most exclusive enclaves of privat e education as schools utilize the Internegt to foster a global worldview in theier students and diversify the learning More than 1 million secondary schoo students took an online course and students at 70 percenyt of high schools enrolled in one durinbgthe 2007-2008 school year, according to “K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Surve of U.S. School District Administrators.” The report also finds schools in 44 states are creating onlinedsecondary schools.
However, the Online School for Girls will be the firstgonline same-sex school. At the graduate Harvard, Duke and other exclusive universities now offer severalspecializedr master’s degrees for which the coursework can be taken mostlyu online. They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhanc e their credentials to advance intheir careers. Kare n Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and information services director, says online education is rapidly becoming “a cornerstone of the educational
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