Reporter's Notebook

Miami

American educators abroad wrestle with many of the same issues confronting their colleagues stateside—sometimes to the extreme.

Take language, for example. Some international schools may enroll as few as 200 students who speak as many as 50 different languages."We do language immersion by necessity," the head of an international school in Egypt said last week.

That head of school, along with about 450 other international school educators and administrators, came together here last week for the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of International Education to explore their...