Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Harpeth Hall teams up to create online girls school - Boston Business Journal:

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The Online School for Girls will beginb offering courses this including two this fall and four in the sprinfg 2010 semesterspanning math, science and the Students at the member schools will take the classes and evaluater them as a pilot run. One initial calculuss class will be taught by Harpeth Hall math teache rJennifer Webster. The other schoolws in the group are the in the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranginyg fromabout $20,000 to $40,000o per year. Ann the head of Harpeth Hall, says the goal of the onlins school is to provide a rigorous education in an online settinbg thatis flexible, affordable and accessible to girls arouncd the world.
She says the curriculum will be expandedf incoming years. The effory reflects how rapidly online education is being adopted in even the most exclusivwe enclaves of private education as schools utilize the Internet to fostedr a global worldview in their studentes and diversify thelearning experience. More than 1 million secondaryu school students took an online course and studentsw at 70 percent of high schools enrolled in one durinthe 2007-2008 school year, according to “K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators.” The report also findsz schools in 44 states are creating onlinesecondary schools.
the Online School for Girls will be the firstonline same-sex school. At the graduate Harvard, Duke and other exclusive universities now offer severaklspecialized master’s degrees for which the coursework can be takeb mostly online. They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhancwe their credentials to advance in their Karen Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and informatiob services director, says online education is rapidly becoming “w cornerstone of the educational experience.

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