New York, NY
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| (Lto r): Farhad Kazemi, Charles Kolb, Barbara Chow, John Brademas and Tracy Wolstencroft. |
CED partnered with the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress to host a May 16, 2006 luncheon discussion on the importance of international education. Speakers, including CED President Charles Kolb, highlighted CED's new policy statement, Education for Global Leadership: The Importance of International Studies and Foreign Language Education for U.S. Economic and National Security.
The forum, which took place at New York University, featured a keynote address from Tracy Wolstencroft, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. The panel discussion included remarks from Barbara Chow, Vice President, Education and Children's Programs, National Geographic Society; Dr. Farhad Kazemi, Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and Professor of Middle Eastern Government and Politics, New York University; and John Brademas, President Emeritus, New York University and Co-Chair of CED's Subcommittee on International Education and Foreign Language Studies.
Menlo Park, CA
As a follow up to the release of CED's report Education for Global Leadership: The Importance of International Studies and Foreign Language Education for U.S. Economic and National Security, CED partnered with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Asia Society to host a roundtable discussion examining the possibilities for improving international education in California schools. The forum was held on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at the Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, CA.
The forum featured remarks from panelists Milton Chen, Executive Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation; Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California; Bess Stephens, Vice President and Global Director, Philanthropy and Education, Hewlett-Packard Company; and Yvonne Chan, Member, California State Board of Education and Principal, Vaughn Next Century Learning Center. Vivien Stewart, Vice President of Education for The Asia Society addressed what policies other states are implementing and Charles Kolb, President of CED discussed the findings of CED's report.
The roundtable, which attracted over forty of California's leading advocates for increased international education, policy makers, academics and business leaders, focused on the need for California to lead the nation in providing its students with strong international studies and foreign language education. Due to California's ethnically diverse population and ever increasing integration with the world economy, the group agreed that more needs to be done to integrate international studies into all aspects of public education.
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