Bangor Daily News – Kathreen Harrison
“Yong Zhao, in his book Catching Up or Leading the Way, talks about ‘cross-cultural competency.’ He stresses that in the ‘flat world’, or ‘global village’ we now inhabit, we absolutely need to be able to ‘live in and move across different cultures easily.’ Schools should educate students in ‘a global perspective … a set of global skills – cultural knowledge and linguistic abilities …’”(more)