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To be released in November 2004. Click here to be notified when the kit is available.

A World-Class Education: A Community Action Kit | Three-minute Quicktime video clip

Asia Society and the George Lucas Educational Foundation are pleased to release a DVD and action kit focused on improving international studies in American schools.

Titled A World Class Education, the kit offers practical guidelines and resources for communities and state policymakers.
Narrated by Morley Safer, the DVD features policy, business, education, international affairs, and media leader perspectives, as well as footage from exceptional school models in action. The guide outlines practical action steps through discussion questions to help communities and states devise new strategies to close the international knowledge gap. Our students’ performance and our nation’s economic and human security require an urgent emphasis on this critical task.

 

Articles and Reports

International Knowledge: Let's Close the Gap (commentary by Ted Sanders and Vivien Stewart, Education Week, May 23, 2003) | link to edweek.org article

This commentary is a useful summary of the international knowledge gap, and what local groups, state leaders, and our nation can do to prepare young Americans for an globally interconnected future.

Ted Sanders is the president of the Education Commission of the States, in Denver. Vivien Stewart is the vice president of the Asia Society, in New York City. She is also the executive director of the National Coalition on Asia and International Studies in the Schools, on which Mr. Sanders serves.


Asia in the Schools: Preparing Young Americans for Today's Interconnected World | 76-page PDF | order print report(s)

The research, findings and recommendations of the National Commission on Asia in the Schools, which first reported the international education gap (June 2001).

2002 States Institute on International Education in the School Meeting Report | Download 48-page PDF


2003 States Institute on International Education in the School Meeting Report Download 12-page PDF

In 2002 and again in 2003, over 200 national and state leaders gathered in Washington, DC at the States Institute on International Education to discuss broad factors that make international knowledge and skills crucial to the well-being of local communities and our country, and devise strategies to catalyze long-term, sustainable improvements in international education in schools.

The States Institute was co-sponsored by Asia Society, Council of Chief State School Officers, Education Commission of the States and National Governors Association. It was made possible by the Ford, Freeman and Starr Foundations.


LINKS: SELECTED STATE REPORTS

Massachusetts | Education for a Global Economy (48-page PDF)

Michigan | Michigan Asia in the Schools report (51-page PDF)

Oklahoma | Oklahoma International Inventory (32-page PDF)

West Virginia | Preparing A Citizenry for the Global Age (22-page PDF)


  
 

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