Last fall, Asia Society and The Goldman Sachs Foundation released a report entitled, "Schools for the Global Age: Promising Practices in International Education." This report highlights nine best practice schools from the hundreds of applicants to The Goldman Sachs Foundation Prizes for Excellence in International Education.

One is a twenty-three-year-old Chinese language immersion school in the heart of San Francisco. Another district, outside Boston, runs the largest and oldest China exchange program in the United States in cooperation with a school in downtown
Beijing. A third, a district in Connecticut, provides intensive foreign language instruction starting in first grade. A fourth sits on the campus of a large traditional Texas high school and is so small that students in a cohort take every academic course together. One was born in answer to a court desegregation order; another grew from the position paper of a local university recommending a response to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Two have as their dominant goal ensuring spoken fluency in a foreign language before children leave elementary school.

Click here to read an essay that gives an overview of these schools and their innovative programs. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back for more information on promising practice schools in international education.

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