Council for Global Education

The Council for Global Education "provides a new framework for a comprehensive education of a child in the 21st century based on these four building blocks of education: Universal Values,* Global Understanding, Excellence in All Things, and Service to Humanity."

Directors

Accessed November 2008:

• Sunita Gandhi - President
• Robert J. Saunders
• Layli Miller Bashir
• Eleanor Childes
• William G. (Bill) Huitt
• Emily M. Norris
• Michael L. Penn
• Behrouz Sabet

Sages Advisory Panel

Accessed November 2008:

• Dwight Allen, Ed.D. -- Eminent Professor of Educational Reform, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
• Marvin Awbry -- Social Science Coordinator, Instructional Services, Fresno (CA) Unified School District
• Joyce Banda -- Founder, Joyce Banda Foundation, Malawi, and Co-Laureate of the 1997 ,Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger
• Holly Brooks -- Founder, The Girl-Site on the web, California
• Phil Brown -- Office of Educational Support Services and Interagency Initiatives
• Soheil Bushrui, Ph.D. -- Baha'i Chair, The Center for Conflict Resolution, University of Maryland
• Tina Choi -- Chair, United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project, NY
• Bonnie Cote -- Program Officer, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education
• John Cummins, Ph.D. -- Founder, Cross Roads School and Cross Roads Foundation, LA, CA
• Gerri Elliott -- Advisor to Dean of the Education Department, Michigan State University
• Francis Fanthom, Ph.D. -- Chairman, All-India Examinations Board, India
• Verona Fonte, Ph.D. -- Psychologist and Founder, Iris Arts and Educational Group, California
• Margaret Holland -- Mukilteo Montessori School, Snohomish, Washington
• Ellen Jordan -- Conway Primary School, Conway, South Carolina
• Craig Kielburger --teenager who founded Free the Children
• Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D. -- Founder of The Club of Budapest
• Laszlo, Kathia and Alexander -- Syntony Quest, San Francisco, California
• Sergio Lub -- a Merchant of Vision, California
• Marjorie Maller -- Mukilteo Montessori School, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
• Pierra Marchand, Ph.D. -- Chairman, Nobel Peace Laureates Campaign for The Children of the World, France
• Nava Maslovaty -- School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
• Richard McCall -- Chief of Staff, USAID
• Max Mortensen -- State Representative, Idaho Legislature, District 28
• Roger Neugebauer, Ph.D. -- Founder, The Child Care Information Exchange
• Alan Slifka -- Chairman, Abraham Fund, New York
• Tim Seldin -- Founder, The Montessori Foundation, and The Montessori Academy for Peace, USA.
• Robert Alan Silverstein -- Director, People For Peace; UN NGO Representative, Pathways To Peace; Co-Director, One Day in Peace, New Jersey
• Gordon Vessels, Ed.D. -- School Psychologist and Project Director for a character education grant project, Atlanta (GA) Public Schools
• Gregory D. Watson -- Founder, Reading the World, Massachusetts

Honorary Members of the Sages Advisory Panel

• Levar Burton -- Eagle Nation Films, host of televisions' Reading Rainbow

Other Supporters and Patrons

• Nicholas Dunlop -- Founder, EarthAction International, UK
• Sonia Gandhi -- President, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and wife of ex-Prime Minister of India
• John Huddleston -- Ex-Associate Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
• Rob Reiner -- President, Castle Rock Entertainment, CA
• Eugene Weiner -- Rabbi, and Co-Founder, The Abraham Fund, Russia.

Contact

Web: http://www.globaleducation.org