National Blog Notes K-16 Global Ed Here

A blog on the national Education Week website details how the 长滩 Unified School District’s partnerships with its hometown, higher education institutions are providing greater opportunities for students to pursue global studies in high school and beyond.

Cal State 长滩’s Richard Marcus, a professor and director of The Global Studies Institute and the International Studies Program, 还有蒂姆·科恩, a full-time lecturer in history and education, director of the Yadunandan Center for India Studies, and coordinator of the university single subject credential program at CSULB, authored the guest blog exploring how the university has merged the nationally recognized 长滩 College Promise initiative with efforts to develop global competence in its students.  The piece is titled Building a K-16 International Education Pipeline: ‘The 长滩 Promise.要找到完整的博客在 edweek.org，按标题搜索.

CSULB has the largest secondary (middle and high school) history-social science teacher credentialing program in 加州 and one of the largest in the nation.  Virtually all history teachers recently hired by 菠菜网lol正规平台 have come through this program, 该博客称, and university faculty regularly provide in-service professional development, 或培训, for all world history teachers in the district. 

The number of 菠菜网lol正规平台 students coming to CSULB with 跳级 World History credit (and global historical understanding) has increased, as has the number of students arriving at the university with AP credit in our courses with international content, 包括比较政府, 人文地理, 西班牙文学, 西班牙语言和文化, 中国语言文化, 以及日本的语言和文化.

The blog also discusses dual enrollment opportunities, 菠菜网lol正规平台’s new 佐藤 Academy of 数学 and 科学 – including 佐藤’s Chinese language classes held in partnership with the university – and the popular new 民族研究 courses that local high schoolers are taking for university credit.  There are also international pathways for students at several local high schools, and efforts are under way to create complementary programming where foreign language acquisition is central to the pathway.