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Outline

Outline

The ethnic and linguistic diversity of U.S. schools has grown significantly in the past three decades. This diversity has supplied distinct new trials for schooling efforts. New policy and federal programs, particularly exemplified in Title VII of the 1994 reau-thorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), attempted to address this challenge. This act called for integrated and comprehensive programming based on a new empirical and conceptual knowledge base, which had emerged over several decades.

Global studies (education) is an interdisciplinary approach to learning concepts and skills necessary to function in a world that is increasingly interconnected and multicultural ...