For the first time in human history, we are living in an age where the youth of our nation know more about society's cutting-edge tools than the adults charged with passing society's technical and cultural knowledge on to them. Most of our young people have far more facility with computer and telecommunications technology than our teaching corps - and, generally, that gap only widens as students travel from elementary school all the way to university and beyond.

It's a brave new - and, often, dangerous - world that today's youth must learn to navigate. Now, more than ever, they need...