The future is now:

With a point and a click of her computer mouse, Hudson High School senior Roxanne Mutti hands in a poetry assignment to a teacher 3,000 miles away, then scrolls through messages from 19 classmates at schools that span four time zones.


Mutti is among a surging number of high school students inhabiting two educational worlds. While sitting at computers in four-walled classrooms in their hometowns, they attend ''virtual" classes connected by fiber optics and Web-based bulletin boards.

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