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    Young Americans are in need of better training in current events and world affairs. Increasingly, American children are unable to converse well in foreign languages and are ill-equipped to talk about the global problems they will inherit. Some studies go as far as to describe the current state of the international affairs secondary school curriculum as a “disaster” . Indeed, this problem has even been lampooned on  popular TV shows, such as Jay Leno. Why does it matter? Many surveys conclude that the younger generation will encounter serious problems in their future jobs, most of which will have a  global component.

UM’s MAIA program and Miami-Dade public schools decided cooperate to solve this problem at the MDCPS social science teachers meeting hosted by MAIA at UM in 2006. We coined our idea: “adopt the world: learning about it”,  now a registered trademark and decided to develop a lecture series “world at risk” to assist the largest school system in Florida and the fourth in the nation jump start its students’ awareness of global events.