The World Bank Group
The World Bank's student and teacher informational website.

Youth Span
The pilot Youth SPAN project brought together high school students from West High School in Iowa City, Iowa with students at Khaldunia School in Islamabad, Pakistan. The pilot project included four videoconference sessions conducted between January and March 2003. The students discussed issues such as globalization, US foreign policy & the Iraq crisis, Pakistan after September 11, and Islam and The West.

Center for Free Trade Policy Studies
"Globalization" describes the ongoing global trend toward the freer flow of trade and investment across borders and the resulting integration of the international economy. Because it expands economic freedom and spurs competition, globalization raises the productivity and living standards of people in countries that open themselves to the global marketplace.

Center for Free Trade Policy Studies
"Globalphobia in the Streets -- Again"

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
"Culture, trade, and globalisation"

International Monetary Fund
The term "globalization" has acquired considerable emotive force. Some view it as a process that is beneficial—a key to future world economic development—and also inevitable and irreversible. Others regard it with hostility, even fear, believing that it increases inequality within and between nations, threatens employment and living standards and thwarts social progress. This brief offers an overview of some aspects of globalization and aims to identify ways in which countries can tap the gains of this process, while remaining realistic about its potential and its risks.

Institute on Globalization at Santa Clara University
Globalization is a process that has, in different forms, occurred over hundreds of years. One definition of contemporary globalization is the increasing interconnection of humankind through growing international flows of capital, goods, services, people, information, and culture. Driven by market forces, advances in information technology, and new forms of transnational governance, this phenomenon has potentially profound effects - - both positive and negative - - on economic, political, cultural, and environmental systems as well as individual human beings throughout the world.

Global Policy Forum

"A Free Press is Crucial in Overcoming Global Poverty" by Joseph Stiglitz and Roumeen Islam

"Why National Pride Still Has a Home in the Global Village" by David Flint

Globalization101
Globalization101.org is dedicated to providing students with information and interdisciplinary learning opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Our goal is to challenge you to think about many of the controversies surrounding globalization and to promote an understanding of the trade-offs and dilemmas facing policy-makers.

The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
"SPICE" serves as a bridge between Stanford University and K-14 schools by developing multidisciplinary curriculum materials on international themes. 
As a program of the Institute for International Studies, SPICE reflects the scholarship of Stanford University in its curricula and professional development seminars for teachers. The curricula and seminars focus on contemporary issues in the context of their cultural and historical underpinnings.