Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future.

Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution with headquarters in New York, with centers in the United States and throughout Asia.

Asia Society’s educational mission is to ensure students have equal access to an excellent education, which today, must include being globally competent. The Partnership for Global Learning works with American and international school systems to spread best practices in preparing students for a global innovation economy.

Strategies for building global competence in schools and expanded learning programs

Preparation for educators to teach about the world

Approaches for creating foreign language programs in schools and districts

Policy studies and funding resources to advance global competencies

Ways to harness technology and create new opportunities for international collaboration

Lessons from high-performing school systems worldwide

Models of how to build academic excellence equitably

International Studies Schools Network

Chinese Language Initiatives

Confucius Classrooms

Critical Languages

Graduate Performance System

Mastery

Global Leadership Badges

Afterschool + Expanded Learning

Career and Technical Education

District Practices

State Policies

Federal Policies

International Benchmarking

Global Cities Education Network

Global Competence Book

Performance Outcomes

Publications

Videos

Events

For teachers

For prinicpals

For districts

For communities

For afterschool providers

For policymakers

Customized services