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There is a sense of irony to the lyrics above. U.S. recording artists and actors wanted to do something about starvation in Africa. As a result, they composed and recorded a song to raise money for that cause. They felt that they could make a difference in the lives of the starving and the needy. Today, young people in the United States are not educated about what is going on in the world and do not feel that they can make a difference. U.S. education has failed to elevate students above their immediate circumstances to get them to embrace the world as their own. Instead, U.S. students look inward instead of raising their heads, opening their eyes, seeing the world, and realizing that they are a part of it.
We are the world; we are the children.
—Lyrics by Michael Jackson, composed for USA Africa
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Diane Ravitch, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reform (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 329.
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Tatum, D.C. (2010). International Relations and Education. In: Genocide at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-10967-4_11
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