Saturday, March 19, 2011

Harpeth Hall teams up to create online girls school - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The Online School for Girls will beginm offering coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the spring 2010 semester spanning math, science and the Students at the member schools will take the classesw and evaluate them as a pilot run. One initial calculus class will be taughtg by Harpeth Hall math teacherJennifer Webster. The other schoola in the group are thein Maryland, the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranging from about $20,000p to $40,000 per year. Ann Teaff, the head of Harpeth Hall, says the goal of the online schoo is to provide a rigorous education in an onlind setting thatis flexible, affordabld and accessible to girls arouns the world.
She says the curriculuk will be expanded incoming years. The effort reflects how rapidly online education is beinfg adopted in even the most exclusive enclaveds of private education as schools utilize the Internetg to foster a global worldview in thei r students and diversify thelearning experience. More than 1 milliojn secondary school students took an online course and studentsa at 70 percent of high schools enrolled in one duringthe 2007-20098 school year, according to “K-12 Online A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School Distric t Administrators.
” The report also finds schooles in 44 states are creating onlinesecondary However, the Online School for Girls will be the firstr online same-sex school. At the graduatr level, Harvard, Duke and othetr exclusive universities now offer severalspecialized master’s degreeas for which the coursework can be taken mostlyu online. They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhanced their credentials to advance in their Karen Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and information services says online education is rapidly becoming “a cornerstone of the educational experience.

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