Recently a faculty member from a mid-west university called me, saying, "I teach a semester of Modern Latin American History, yet none of my students interacts with anyone from Latin America during the entire course. Can you help us?"

Increasingly, university faculty are realizing that learning "about" the world must...

Worldwide, "global education" is simply known as "education." In contrast, the United States education system resists the idea that teacher and students need to learn about and engage with their peers worldwide.

US policy-makers range from being ambivalent to completely freaked-out about global education and collaboration in the classroom. The...

The world is capturing our national attention like no other time in recent years. From the natural disaster devastation in Japan to the global economic crisis and the human uprisings in the MENA region, every part of U.S. society is visibly being impacted by world events. These occurrences have again...

A year ago last June in an historic speech in Cairo, Egypt, President Obama expressed his desire to "create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo."

To make real the President's vision, an opportunity exists for his administration...