From the Huntington Herald-Dispatch:

Hari Satya Shankar Addagarla recalls how his academic classload one year while in India included math, chemistry, physics, biology, history, geography, civics and three language courses.

That was when Addagarla was a 12-year-old in what would be called a middle school in the United States. The academic classload for a typical middle schooler in Cabell County? Reading, language arts, science, social studies and math.

That’s a large part of the reason why Cabell County is embarking on a journey to restructure its high schools to reflect the changes taking place on an international scale, brought on by rapidly changing technology that has made the world smaller.

Although West Virginia started work on new 21st century initiatives to increase rigor, relevance and relationships within the past few years, Cabell County wants to go a step further by examining how it might restructure high school education.

Read more at the Herald-Dispatch.