China, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa are areas undergoing significant changes in human rights and forms of government. Experts in each area explain why these countries' future roles in global relations should be a focus for all American students. (MLH)

"NASSP Bulletin" editor Tom Koerner poses questions about the relative importance of international education to 10 people from several educational fields. Most agree that including an international perspective is not anti-American, but enables students to understand the issues confronting our country and the world. Curriculum development and…

Outlines resources available to secondary school educators to make international education a strong component of the curriculum. School resources include foreign persons, the library/media center, language offerings, and selected curriculum areas. Specific curricular activities, community resources, and student exchange and administrator/teacher…

Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of "National Geographic," is interviewed about the importance of geography for Americans. He claims our lack of geographic knowledge impedes our ability to act and compete in the world market as a world power and points out that geographic ignorance extends to people employed at high levels of government. (MD)

Economic understanding is a necessary component of high quality coursework devoted to international issues and U.S. and world history and geography. A secondary program should cover specialization and exchange, barriers to trade, balance of payment and exchange rates, international aspects of growth and stability, and economic systems. (MLH)

Discusses a foreign policy conference for educators sponsored by the United States Department of State and the need to provide young people with a broad perspective of the world. (IRT)

We need new institutions to protect the world, new institutions to protect the cause of freedom. But those institutions will not be possible without new ideas, and ideas will not be possible without education. (Author)