Global Citizenship

I've been thinking about the topic of global citizenship that was brought up in class yesterday. I think it is important to stress this in schools, especially as the world's borders continue to dissolve. Our country is no longer isolated from the rest of the world; socially, economically, we are connected to many other countries. Our country is involved in a war that we started overseas! It is impossible to overlook the impact the U.S. has in other areas of the world.

I think that civic education needs to improve if we want to form responsible citizens, but it also needs to expand to focus on more than just our responsibility as American citizens to our country. As global citizens we have a responsibility to the rest of the world, and as citizens of a "big name" country, our students should be aware of the interconnectedness of these issues.