Global travels expose Americans to different worlds.When high school students at ALPHA Academy in Magnolia, Texas Magnolia is a city in Montgomery County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,111 at the 2000 census. It should also be noted that in the early 1900s, Magnolia was known as "Mink". The town was renamed in the mid-1900s. It is also the home of A. , asked teachers what they would do to solve the HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic across the world, Principal Matt Clark Matt Clark may refer to:
"These kids usually don't look past themselves," Clark says. "Our campus includes 92 percent at-risk students The term at-risk students is used to describe students who are "at risk" of failing academically, for one or more of any several reasons. The term can be used to describe a wide variety of students, including,
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 pressing global issues to help solve them. Global Nomads Group and the ship, Semester at Sea Semester at Sea (SAS) is a study abroad program managed by the Institute for Shipboard Education (ISE) in Charlottesville, Virginia. The University of Virginia is the academic sponsor for the program. , make this program possible, hop-scotching across nine countries on three continents over three months. This year, they are discussing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and exposing American students to other cultures, other ways of thinking, and myths of the disease. The discussions, which typically last over three days in each country, cover social studies, economics, geography, health and cultural diversity lessons. The students also exercise critical thinking skills as they have to research the countries before they speak to the students there and devise riveting questions. Some students are devising ideas on how to create innovative HIV/AIDS prevention programs, such as via interviews and Web clips, to disseminate to communities. "We're trying to get out of that textbook mode and more curriculum and standards mode and bring in more digital resources and project learning and then follow up with programmed instruction programmed instruction, method of presenting new subject matter to students in a graded sequence of controlled steps. Students work through the programmed material by themselves at their own speed and after each step test their comprehension by answering an ," says Sherry Goodvin, director of administrative and student services at Maize School District in Kansas, a participating district. Goodvin adds that while Americans don't grasp the epidemic's scale, having students listen to South African students who have lost family members to the disease is like a "rude awakening" for American youth and teaches compassion and understanding of the reality. "The impact of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation is, in the coming years, going to be huge on our economy and our work environment and that our awareness of other cultures is something we can't let slide as educators," Goodvin says. "Distance learning makes it more real." www.gng.org/currents/index.html
Long-Term Trend: Homework
Percentages of students age 13
by pages read per day in school
and for homework
5 or fewer 6 to 10 11 to 15 16 to 20 More than 20
1984 27 34 18 11 11
1999 23 31 18 13 16
2004 21 26 18 14 21
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