According to a June 23 article by Jeannie Naujeck of the Nashville Business Journal, The Online School for Girls is the result of a combined effort from Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Holton-Arms School in Maryland, the Laurel School in Ohio and Westover School in Connecticut:
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.Though a girls-only online school is a unique offering, the concept of Internet-based education itself is far from uncommon. Naujeck reported that more than one million U.S. secondary school students took at least one online course during the 2007-2008 academic 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.
The movement toward more single-sex schools is also gaining steam, with mounting evidence supporting the belief that single-sex schools are best equipped to address learning differences between boys and girls.
Labels: single-sex education, online
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