The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.

Considers S. 2874 and companion H.R. 14643, to authorize HEW grants to university international studies programs. Includes: "Open Doors-1965," by Institute of International Education (p. 71-137); and "Crises and Concepts in International Affairs," by International Studies Association (p. 267-334).

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As demographic changes reduce the number of domestic students in Europe attracting the right students and scholars will become more important for administrators and faculty at higher education institutions in Germany. Especially the US is an important potential source of students for study abroad an degree programs in Germany, particularly those taught in English. As US universities begin to deploy more aggressive marketing tactics in international recruitment, it is important to understand both US recruitment practices and Germany's differential advantages. The book is written in English. The ordering process on this website is in German. English-speakers should write [email protected] Durch die demografische Entwicklung wird die Zahl der einheimischen Studenten in Europa sinken. Gleichzeitig wird die Zahl der amerikanischen Studenten in den nächsten Jahren noch zunehmen. Um so wichtiger ist es für die Verwaltung deutscher Hochschulen, amerikanische Studenten für ein Studium in Deutschland zu gewinnen. Viele Kurse in Master-Studiengängen werden zudem in englischer Sprache angeboten. Der Band analysiert das US-amerikanische Universitätssystem, zeigt die Anwerbepraxis amerikanischer Hochschulen und informiert über die Möglichkeit der Zusammenarbeit deutscher und US-amerikanischer Hochschulen. Das Buch ist in Englisch geschreiben.

International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than ever before. Responding to a timely global moment where education and international engagement are being redefined and practiced in new ways, the authors call for a reconsideration of paradigms and critical reflection of the entire field of international education. At the same time, the authors show how international education is an imperative for the future of learning and the world, and also, crucially, that this work cannot be done in a silo. International Education at the Crossroads offers readers a chance to join in the conversation that is as global as it is meaningful in communities, the lives of learners, and institutions around the world. International education requires that everyone the world over work together to produce new knowledge, to navigate the "crossroads," and to collectively chart the directions in which the field will move into the future.