The Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning is a national network of K-12 educators and policymakers dedicated to sharing best practices and advancing public policy to integrate global knowledge and skills within the mainstream of American education.  The Partnership's annual conference, "Creating Success in a Global Era: A World-Class" will take place in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area from July 8-10, 2010.

Join the conversation in 2010 to:

• Discover effective approaches to integrate global learning in elementary, secondary, and afterschool programs, and models for teaching world languages
• Collaborate with experts from high performing countries worldwide on teaching and learning to promote high achievement and global competence
• Hear how reauthorization of ESEA provides a game-changing opportunity to "globalize" education
• Explore why success in college and the workplace now require global knowledge and skills
• Build effective networks to advocate for global learning in policy and practice 

To learn more about the conference, please visit www.asiasociety.org/pglconference. Register today! Discounts are available!

Do you want to help address global challenges like poverty, hunger, conflict, climate change and access to education? 

Global Citizen Corps is an international youth leadership program that brings students together to make a difference. Over one year, Leaders work with Mercy Corps staff to get the training and tools to raise awareness and organize effective local actions that make a global impact.

Global Citizen Corps is free, it's fun and gives you the skills to make a difference! Be an inspiration. Real change happens one person at a time.

Applying is easy. Visit www.globalcitizencorps.org/leadership to apply and learn more about what Global Citizen Corps is all about.

The application deadline is May 15^th for the Leadership Summit and June 15^th for the program. 

"KEY ISSUES IN ASIAN STUDIES" booklets are designed to complement Education About Asia, and serve as vital educational materials that are both accessible and affordable for classroom use ($10 each). Booklets in the series tackle broad subjects or major cultural and historical themes in an introductory but compelling, jargon-free style appropriate for survey courses, written to encourage classroom debate and discussion. The following booklets are currently available:

Caste in India, by Diane Mines

Global India circa 100 CE: South Asia in Early World History, by Richard H. Davis

Understanding East Asia's Economic Miracles, by Zhiqun Zhu

Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia, by Michael Peletz

Political Rights in Post-Mao China, by Merle Goldman

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)-the largest society of its kind, with more than 7,000 members worldwide-is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia.  For more information on the Association for Asian Studies and its publications go to: www.asian-studies.org.