At a recent launch of a “school-to-school” link connecting an elementary school in the United States with one in Kenya, young children across an 8,000-mile divide shared a “read-aloud,” and then reflected in amazement and delight that they could share a story with kids in another part of the world. The Teachers College at Columbia University will watch the school-to-school process carefully, with formal monitoring methods, to assess the value of school experiences in terms of expanded cognitive and ethical learning.