Bush supports UN classroom indoctrination."The Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a 'universal curriculum' for teaching global citizenship Global Citizenship is both a moral and ethical disposition which might guide an individual or groups' understanding of the local and global contexts — and their relative responsibilities within different communities. , peace studies and equality of world cultures," reported the January 18 Washington Times. The European-based International Baccalaureate (IB) program professes to teach "a set of culturally universal values In philosophy, universal values is an attempt to establish a finite set of concepts that are recognized by all human beings as morally good. The discussion of universal values is quite unsettled (often controversial), and therefore, can start from many different places: to which all people aspire"; that culture includes human rights, equality of the sexes and "open-mindedness to change and obligation to environmental protection and sustainable development Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfilment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. The linkage between environment and development was globally recognized in 1980, when the International Union ." Announcing the program in 2003, Education Secretary Rod Paige Roderick Raynor "Rod" Paige (born June 17, 1933), served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from college dean and school superintendent to be declared: "We are ever mindful of the lessons of September 11, one of which is that all future measures of a rigorous K-12 education must include a solid grounding in other cultures, other languages and other histories.... In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , we need to put the 'world' back into 'world-class' education." According to the Times, "The IB curriculum has been adopted by about 1,450 schools in 115 countries, including 502 schools in the United States. The program is in 55 primary, middle and secondary schools in [Washington, D.C.], Maryland and Virginia." |
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