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Md. School Joins Test of Online Courses Tailored to Girls
By Michael Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 6, 2009
When the Online School for Girls flickers to life this fall on computer screens across the country, students will take part in an unusual experiment that joins two trends: girls-only schooling and online teaching.
A consortium that includes the 108-year-old Holton-Arms School in Bethesda is driving the project, in the belief that girls can benefit from an Internet curriculum tailored just to them.
"There's been a lot of research done on how girls learn differently with technology than boys," said Brad Rathgeber, Holton-Arms's director of technology. "Part of this is a little bit of theory that we're trying to put in practice to see if it really does play out."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502424.html
Posted by: Ray Rose | July 6, 2009 03:48 PM