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When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed a room full of students from around the world last week, 30 undergraduate and graduate Lehigh students were in attendance.
Three years ago, Otis Hackney was asked to turn around a school notorious for tensions among students. The key, he says, is simple, but elusive: Teaching people to respect each other.
America's public schools have played a role in reducing inequality and increasing the bonds between people of diverse backgrounds. Yet, as we struggle through a particularly partisan era, a period in which the middle class is shrinking and income inequality is increasing, there is a growing movement to privatize public schools.
I'm the parent of an elementary and middle school student. I've attended both public and private schools in America, taught in the U.S. and Japan, and both supervised teachers and evaluated principals.
The Committee on Teaching About the United Nations (UN), an American association affiliated with the UN, has awarded Lehigh University a Best Practices Award. The university received this award on the basis of its proactive efforts to fuse a Lehigh-UN partnership and integrate this partnership into curriculum.