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| States Institute on International Education in the Schools |
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State and national leaders in policy, business,
education, and philanthropy, gathered at the annual
States Institute on International Education in the
Schools on December 7 - 9, 2005 in Washington,
DC. Governors and chief state school officers from 26
states sent leadership teams to participate in this
Institute. The teams included senior policymakers from
the executive and legislative branches, international
studies experts, business and philanthropic leaders, and
outstanding teachers and principals. Special guests
included representatives of model programs, experts on
trade, national security, foreign languages, and
members of the National Coalition on International
Studies in the Schools.
Thomas Houlihan, President of CCSSO, opened the
Institute with his Top Ten Reasons to Support Preparing
for the Global Age. Michael Eskew, CEO of UPS gave the
opening dinner plenary speech in which he outlined the
reasons why an international education is important to
today's workplace. Gaston Caperton, President of The
College Board, spoke to the importance of scaling up
the current international educations initiatives across
the U.S. To view these presentations and more please
visit:
http://internationaled.org/statesinstitute2005overview
(or click on the link below)
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| Goldman Sachs Foundation Prizes and New Report |
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The Goldman Sachs Foundation Prizes for Excellence in
International Education were also presented as part of
the States Institute.
The 2005 winners included:
Elementary/Middle School: Richmond
Elementary
School, OR
High School: Newton North and Newton
South High Schools, MA
Higher Education (teacher preparation or K-12
outreach): Indiana University
State (co-Winners): Delaware and
Kentucky
Media/Technology: Global Nomads Group
For more information on any of the winners please visit:
http://www.internationaled.org/prizes/ (or click on the
link under quick links)
At the awards dinner, The Goldman Sachs Foundation
and Asia Society released the report, Educating
Leaders for a Global Society. The report shows that
U.S. students risk falling behind peers in other nations in
their preparation for new jobs because critical skills
needed to compete in the global marketplace have not
yet been adopted in most US schools. It concludes that
today's students must acquire a far different set of
knowledge, skills and perspectives than previous
generations to succeed in an increasingly
interconnected global economy.
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| States Prepare for the Global Age |
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Also released at the States Institute was States
Prepare for the Global Age, written by Edward
Fiske, former Education Editor for The New York Times.
It provides an overview on 17 U.S. states and their
initiatives to improve international education in schools
and to help prepare a generation of students for a
global future. The report includes a state-by-state
profile and a guide with ten questions citizens should
ask their state government.
To learn more visit:
http://internationaled.org/statespreparefortheglobalage
To order copies for your initiative please call: 212-327-
9336
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| News Highlights and Grant Opportunity |
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The big news in 2005 was Chinese! National and local
publications, wire services and journals ran stories on
everything from specific school programs to coverage of
the growing national demand for classes and teachers
to stories on Mandarin speaking nannies. Every angle
was documented in papers such as New York
Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Christian
Science Monitor, UPI and local papers. To view
these stories visit:
http://internationaled.org/news.htm#PCChinese
In other news, the Christian Science Monitor on
December 8 published an Op-ed by Henry Kaufman,
chairman emeritus of the Institute of International
Education and Thomas S. Johnson the chairman,
entitled, Send Future Business Leaders Abroad. It
states, "in a globalized economy, our national well-being
also hinges on future CEOs, managers, professionals,
and entrepreneurs who are competent to conduct
business in a global environment." To read this and
other IE news stories, please click on the link below.
Grant Opportunity for Southern States The
Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
(CGP) is providing funding opportunities for small-scale
education initiatives in southern states. CGP's Education
Program seeks to increase awareness and understanding
of Japan in these states through support of teacher
training and related programs addressing the needs of
the K-12 student and teacher community. Grants of up
to $5,000 will be awarded for projects conducted in the
current Japanese fiscal year (through March 31, 2006).
Organizations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia,
and West Virginia are eligible to apply. For more
information please visit:
www.cgp.org
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| President's National Security Language Initiative |
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US President George Bush unveiled a new National
Security Language Initiative on January 5, that includes
a $57 million grouping of federal initiatives intended to
address the nation's needs for foreign language
speakers. The initiative, which would be administered
jointly by the Departments of Education, State, and
Defense and the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, has three broad goals:increase the number
of Americans mastering critical need languages and
start at a younger age; increase the number of
advanced-level speakers of foreign languages, with an
emphasis on critical needs languages; and increase the
number of foreign language teachers and the resources
for them.
Education's Fiscal Year 2007 budget proposal will have
$57 million for the initiative: $24 million for the revised
Foreign Language Assistant Program (FLAP); $24 million
for new college-based language partnerships with 24
school districts; $5 million to recruit 1,000 foreign
language teachers by 2010 (Language Teacher Corps);
$3 million to expand Teacher-to-Teacher seminars to
reach thousands of foreign language teachers; and $1
million for a new e-learning language clearinghouse.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http://exchanges.state.gov/universitysummit/.
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