Describes the objectives and content of global education programs, which engage students in the study of global realities that affect the web of interdependent relationships worldwide. The history of this movement, attempts at program development in the United States, and implications for U.S. schools are discussed. (MBR)

States that the basis of the functional illiteracy problem lies in the fact that high school teachers are trained in literature rather than in language, i.e., competent reading, writing, listening to, and speaking the English language. Believes the high school English teacher training program should be given over to a new faculty committed to the…

Suggests that the term "career development" is a more accurate term than "career education": "'Development' implies that people are continually changing over their lifetime. We are always in the process of becoming". Outlines a highly workable plan for continuous elementary career education beginning in the primary level. (Editor/RK)