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Article: Global travels expose Americans to different worlds.(Update)
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- District Administration
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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When high school students at ALPHA Academy in Magnolia, Texas, asked teachers what they would do to solve the HIV/AIDS epidemic across the world, Principal Matt Clark knew they had something special.
"These kids usually don't look past themselves," Clark says. "Our campus includes 92 percent at-risk students. So when they ask, 'When are we going to be able to connect to another child in another country,' there is a paradigm shift for that child."
The credit goes to the CURRENTS program, an international education program that unites thousands of American students with peers around the world via videoconferences via Polycom and the Internet, discussing ...