A recent NYT editorial points out that “there are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States, one of the fastest-growing segments of the population…in the age of globalization, …waves of human displacement in recent decades have led to immigration on a scale not seen since Ellis Island. But a country that has [...]
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President Bill Clinton has launched a new initiative to get people engaged in addresssing issues of global concern. The first step, is to test your global IQ on the William J. Clinton Foundation’s website. The quiz has questions on topics on issues ranging from climate change to deforestation, global health and poverty. Readers of the [...]
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The World Savvy Monitor is a free online current events resource for educators looking to deepen their understanding of global issues and integrate these issues into classroom instruction and discussion. Since Summer 2008, World Savvy has published ten editions of the monitor on subjects ranging from democracy around the world to Pakistan on the world [...]
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