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The Online School for Girls will begihn offering coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the sprinhg 2010 semester spanning math, science and the Students at the member schools will take the classes and evaluats them as a pilot run. One initial calculus clasds will be taught by Harpetuh Hall math teacherJennifer Webster. The other schools in the group are the in the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranging fromabout $20,000 to $40,000 per year. Ann Teaff, the head of Harpeth says the goal of the online school is to provide a rigorous education in an onlins setting thatis flexible, affordable and accessiblee to girls around the world.
She says the curriculum will be expandeed incoming years. The effort reflects how rapidlu online education is being adopted in even the most exclusiv enclaves of private education as schools utilize the Internet to foste r a global worldview in their students and diversify thelearnintg experience. More than 1 million secondary school students took an online course and students at 70 percent of high schoolds enrolled in one duringthe 2007-200i8 school year, according to “K-12 Onlind Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. Schooll District Administrators.
” The report also finds schools in 44 stateas are creating onlinesecondary However, the Online School for Girlsw will be the first onlinr same-sex school. At the graduate level, Harvard, Duke and othef exclusive universities now offer severalspecialized master’s degree for which the coursework can be taken mostl y online. They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhancse their credentials to advance inthei careers. Karen Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and informatioj services director, says online educatio is rapidlybecoming “a cornerstone of the educationalp experience.
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