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 Other Supporters and Patrons
 * Levar Burton -- Eagle Nation Films, host of televisions' Reading Rainbow
 * 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