The Center for Global Education at Asia Society has a vision that, in an interconnected global era, all youth from all countries and cultures will have the capacity to create, participate in, and benefit from a peaceful and prosperous world.

We are working toward this vision to accomplish this through a variety of initiatives, professional development offerings, partnerships, and resources, and we work with educators, school districts, parents, and communities to ensure that they have the tools and support they need to globalize learning and better prepare young people for our global future. Explore our initiatives at the links below, or contact us for more information.

Career Readiness for a Global Economy

The Center for Global Education has partnered with organizations and other educators to develop professional development courses and resources that assist CTE (career and technical education or vocational education) educators incorporate global competence into their work. Learn more about the courses or peruse the resources in our CTE Toolkit.

China Learning Initiatives

China Learning Initiatives strategizes and executes a multitude of projects aimed at making Mandarin language learning in the US mainstream, and generating engaging, relevant, and approachable learning content about China for the American public. Learn more

Global Cities Education Network

The Global Cities Education Network is an international learning community of city school systems in Asia and North America. The network seeks to share promising practices to develop system responses to systemic education problems, ultimately improving education for all students. Learn more

Education for Equity

Education for Equity is an initiative building on The Center for Global Education's prior work to transform education systems as a means to build a just and equal society.  A primary focus of the initiative will be the development of materials for teachers, parents and youth themselves that enable all students to understand and act on racism as an interpersonal and structural malignancy. Learn more