What iEARN-USA Believes
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, and the main context in which most Americans frame the conversation about engaging with the world is in the need to “out-compete” it.
I believe that if we set a national goal in 2012 to internationalize collaborative education for all US students, future generations of Americans will be outward-looking, locally and globally engaged, multilingual, and empathetic.