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• Council Highlights Global Campaign For Education Week (April 23-29, 2007)

  Related Bio:	Gene B. Sperling, Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center for Universal Education

  April 25, 2007

  The Council’s Center for Universal Education has partnered with PBS Wide Angle as well as Channel Thirteen and the U.S. Global Campaign for Education to distribute the PBS Wide Angle documentary, “Back to School.” This documentary is the second in a twelve-year series that tracks the education and lives of seven children from Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya, and Romania.  This CFR-PBS partnership is a means to increase outreach of CFR’s work to educators and young people around the United States and the world. Currently, 1,000 schools in forty states have signed up to receive the DVDs and curriculum to be used in educational settings. As a limited supply remains, educators interested in receiving this documentary and learning materials can sign up by going to www.campaignforeducationusa.org. For more information, contact Gene Sperling,senior fellow for economic policy and director of the Center for Universal Education, at 1-202-518-3401 or gsperling@cfr.org.

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  The Center for Universal Education seeks to further strategic thinking on how to achieve universal education by producing accessible policy analysis and facilitating ongoing discussions between donor countries, aid organizations and poor nations on the issues critical to promoting basic education in the developing world.

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  New CFR Books

  

  In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.

  

  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  

  In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.

  Complete list of CFR Books.

  

  

  Task Force Reports

  U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality

  This report identifies four emerging issues—poverty and inequality, public security, human mobility, and energy security—that represent fundamental challenges and opportunities for Latin America and for U.S. policy toward it.

  U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda, A Responsible Course

  This report takes stock of the changes under way in China and what they mean for China and for U.S.-China relations.

  About Independent Task Forces at the Council.

  

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