Response to Teaching for a Shared Future: Think Global

This article opens up by stating how American students are lacking information about the world and current affairs. For example, many college-bound seniors could not even find some Middle Eastern countries on a map when compared to other students in other parts of the world! In all honesty, this is really embarassing on the global scale because the U.S. is supposedly the most powerful country and all parts of society need to reflect that image. Over the past decade however, it seems more apparent in the mainstream that many systems have experienced some sort of corruption and lack of detail and is slipping away in credibility and integrity. In a global age, students of all backgrounds need adequate knowledge in current world affairs and relate it into the school subjects and prepare these students for jobs in potentially the world market.