Harpeth Hall teams up to create online girls school - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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The Online School for Girls will begimn offering coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the sprintg 2010 semester spanning math, science and the humanities. Studente at the member schoolsx will take the classed and evaluate them as apilot run. One initia l calculus class will be taught by Harpeth Hall math teacherJennifer Webster. The other schools in the groupl are thein Maryland, the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranging from about $20,000 to $40,000 per Ann Teaff, the head of Harpetuh Hall, says the goal of the onlined school is to provide a rigorousw education in an online setting that is affordable and accessible to girls around the She says the curriculum will be expandex in coming years.
The effort reflectx how rapidly online education is beingg adopted in even the most exclusive enclaves of privats education as schools utilize the Internet to fostert a global worldview in their studentx and diversify thelearning experience. More than 1 milliom secondary school students took an online course and studentds at 70 percent of high schoold enrolled in one duringthe 2007-2008 schooo year, according to “K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District The report also finds schools in 44 statews are creating onlinesecondart schools. However, the Online Schoo l for Girls will be the first online same-sex school.
At the graduate level, Harvard, Duke and othe exclusive universities now offerd severalspecialized master’s degrees for whicu the coursework can be taken mostly They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhancwe their credentials to advance in their Karen Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and information services says online education is rapidly becominyg “a cornerstone of the educational experience.
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