The impact on educational analysis of mainstream international relations (IR) theories is yet to realize its full potential. The problem of education in relation to the construction of world order is considered in relation to core developments in IR theory since the Second World War. In particular, the global architecture of education is seen as a…

Analysis of responses of 162 pairs of gifted-nongifted students, ages 6-10 years, revealed that gifted SS read the newspaper more, attend more to world and national news items, and are more concerned about war. Differences were also found in concern over educational matters and attention to governmental differences between the U.S. and other…

Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China are improving after nearly three years of conflict and acrimony. The two countries are again able to act in pursuit of their common interests and for the benefit of peace in the Asian region and the world. (RM)

The author believes a cold war ideology permeates our culture and poisons the minds of youth. The challenge to education is to awaken people to a historical and global perspective and raise public consciousness of the necessity for peace. (MD)

The Fifth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities met from January 24-February 4, 2005, in New York City. This briefing paper relates developments during that session.

This paper proposes to measure inequality in educational achievement by constructing a Gini index on educational attainment. It uses the proposed measure to analyze the relationship between inequality in world income and educational attainment (in terms of both the average attainment and the dispersion of attainment). Though theoretical…

This paper reports the findings of a review which intends to exchange ideas in the field of agricultural education. The review evaluates accomplishments over the past two decades in agricultural education and training facilities. Sections include: (1) "General Findings from the Review"; (2) "Findings Relating to the World Bank"; (3) "Overall…

This article compares teacher centers in Great Britain, Japan, and the United States. (JA)

A keynote speech at the CLA Convention, Boston 1970 which presents an overview of the problems, challenges, and opportunities that await the world in the 1970's. (MF)

Traditionally, the most obvious differences between the United States and Canada have been those of size, power, and responsibility in world affairs. New differences relate to different dynamics in the two countries themselves. Old and new rules for managing the relationship are examined. (RM)

Uses the shock felt by much of the U.S. population at the September 11th terrorist attacks and personal experience learning Italian to assert the importance of studying foreign languages as a way to better understand other cultures. (EV)

"Summers To Step Down, Ending Tumult at Harvard" kicked off in 2006 as one of the most talked about news stories in higher education. Only a few months later, an event involving another elite institution would grab even more headlines, and with more serious ramifications. Three Duke University men's lacrosse players were indicted on rape…

Bioethics--the study of ethical issues in science and medicine--has grown to become a significant academic and service-oriented discipline with its own research centers, conferences, journals, and degree programs. As these issues have moved to the center of public debate, the law has assumed an increasingly important place in the discipline of…

This article illustrates two conceptual and methodological problems that interfere with the accurate identification and measurement of religious mobilization in global civil society. First, data used to study the organizational composition of global culture contain a selection bias that favors organizations within an elite stratum of the world…