E-Newsletter - October 24, 2003
from the Washington State Coalition for International Education

In the News…

Local High School Students Embracing Arabic Language
After school Arabic language program launched at four Seattle High Schools by One World Now! (Seattle Times October 17, 2003)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001768101_arabic17.html
 
Students Look into the Arab World
Report on launch of Arabic language program by One World Now! (Seattle PI October 21, 2003) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/144751_carabic21.html

 

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 10:30 -12:30

The Center for Multicultural Education Symposium Lecture

Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives
A discussion of the Major Findings of an International Conference on Diversity and
Citizenship Education in Multicultural Nation-States

Amy Gutmann, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics
And Provost of Princeton University

Unity and Diversity in Democratic Multicultural Education:
Creative and Destructive Tensions

Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Book signing to follow presentations
Please RSVP to centerme@u.washington.edu

For more news and events, see: http://internationaledwa.org/news.htm.

 

International Education Summit Report available

View the final report on our web site: http://internationaledwa.org/summit/2003_Summit_Report.pdf.
(You need Adobe Acrobat to view this; to download it, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)

For links to handouts from the Summit, go to http://internationaledwa.org/summit/schedule.htm.

 

2003 States Institute in Washington, DC

The National Coalition for Asia and International Education in the Schools has once again invited Washington State to send a team to the States Institute in DC November 17-19, 2003. Our team this year consists of:

- Bobbie May, President of the State Board of Education
- Chris Thompson, Executive Director of the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission
- Lili Hein, Program Coordinator of the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle
- Michele Anciaux Aoki, Project Director for the State Innovations Grant (P-20 International Education Summit)
- Robert Drewel, Snohomish County Executive

 

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