Education Week: U.S. Schools Forge Foreign Connections Via Web

Education Week: U.S. Schools Forge Foreign Connections Via Web

Ninth graders at the 2,300-student South Plantation High School in Plantation, Fla., were in a videoconference with Egyptian students and journalists last year when President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Both the Americans and the Egyptians were in awe, clapping and laughing and sharing in a moment of global importance.