Harpeth Hall School is joining with several other exclusive private all-girls’ schools to create the first online secondary school devoted exclusively to same-sex education.
The Online School for Girls will begin offering courses this September, including two this fall and four in the spring 2010 semester spanning math, science and the humanities. Students at the member schools will take the classes and evaluate them as a pilot run.
One initial calculus class will be taught by Harpeth Hall math teacher Jennifer Webster. The other schools in the group are the Holton-Arms School in Maryland, the Laurel School in Ohio and Westover School in Connecticut, all with tuition ranging from about $20,000 to $40,000 per year.
Ann Teaff, the head of Harpeth Hall, says the goal of the online school is to provide a rigorous education in an online setting that is flexible, affordable and accessible to girls around the world. She says the curriculum will be expanded in coming years.
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Harpeth Hall teams up to create online girls school by Jeannie Naujeck
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