With an American-colored cover and content, the book by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum: That Used to Be Us: What Went Wrong with America and How it Can Come Back was able to catch more than a million eyebrows on the shelves of journalists and political historians across the globe. A...

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills-including creativity, innovation, and technical capability-to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component of...

Although the United States is currently the world leader in higher education, it is facing increasing competition from universities in China. An overview is presented why Chinese students increasingly prefer to study in the U.S. A general presentation of China's highly-competitive college...

"In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model...