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36 | FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION FPA in the News REPORT OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS CURRICULUM DEVELOPED BY THE FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION AND THE HERRICKS, NEW YORK, SCHOOL DISTRICT. Excerpted from The New York Times, May 16, 2008 DISTRICT PUTS ALL THE WORLD IN CLASSROOMS by Winnie Hu For nearly a decade, the lesson that the world is interconnected—call it Globalization 101—has been bandied about as much in education as in economics, spurring a cottage industry of internationally themed schools, feel-good cultural exchanges, model United Nations clubs and heritage festivals. But the high-performing Herricks school district here in Nassau County, whose student body is more than half Asian, is taking globalization to the graduate level, integrating international studies into every aspect of its curriculum. A partnership with the Foreign Policy As- sociation has transformed a high school basement into a place where students produce research papers on North Korea’s nuclear energy program or the Taliban’s role in the opium trade. English teachers have culled reading lists of what they call “dead white men” (think Hawthorne and Hemingway) to make room for Jhumpa Lahiri, Ghangrae Lee and Khaled Hosseini. Gifted fifth graders learn com- parative economics by charting the multinational production of a pencil and representing countries in a mock G8 summit. Starting this year, every sixth grader at Herricks Middle School is required to take art in French, Spanish, Italian or Chinese, a dual-language approach that the school is considering expanding to gym as well. Preparing to create a Haitian-style painting in one French/art class last week, the students reviewed indigenous plants and wildlife in photos of Haitian rainforests and beaches projected onto a screen.... The Herricks district, located 20 miles east of Manhattan, is carved out of six affluent communities: New Hyde Park, Roslyn, Roslyn Heights, Albertson, Manhasset Hills and Williston Park. The district was once primarily Jewish, Italian and Irish but shifted with an influx of Korean, Indian and Chinese immigrants beginning in the late 1980s. Today, officials say, Herricks High School students come from homes where 69 different languages are spoken, and Bhangra music from India is often played at school dances. Jack Bierwirth, the Herricks superintendent since 2001, said the district began developing a global curriculum not only because of its diversity, but also because parents and teachers said they wanted to demand more from their students, who have posted some of the highest standardized test scores in the state. “What if you get finished with the A.P. exam but can’t remember where Afghanistan is?” Mr. Bierwirth asked. “It’s important to place knowledge in the context of the world.” Najiba Keshwani, 16, an 11th grader who is Muslim but jokes that she is half-Jewish because she has many Jewish friends and loves to nosh on matzo, put it this way: “To be American, maybe you used to have to be white and own land, but now we define what American is, and I think that affects how we learn.” Herricks’ officials reached out to the Manhattan-based Foreign Policy Association, tapping into its resources—academic journals, speaker’s series, teacher training program—as it redesigned the high school social studies curriculum to include new courses in contemporary foreign policy and world philosophy.
Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile (center), at an economic conference in Hanoi with the Presidents of China, the United States, and Russia and the Prime Ministers of Canada and Thailand. The Foreign Policy Association recognized President Bachelet at its World Leadership Forum Dinner and, jointly with the National Endowment for Democracy, at the New York Democracy Forum Gala Dinner. (Reprinted with permission of The New York Times.) FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION | 37 FPA BOARD FPA OF IN THE DIRECTORS NEWS
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