About Us

Students today live in a world more connected than at any point in history, where fast-spreading viruses, carbon emissions, and scientific breakthroughs transcend borders. To successfully navigate the challenges and opportunities ahead requires that they develop global literacy—the essential knowledge, skills, and perspective needed to understand how our complicated and fascinating world works.

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Since 2015, CFR Education has devoted itself to this vital work, developing award-winning classroom products designed to introduce students in middle school all the way through graduate school to the fundamentals of foreign policy and international relations in order to make sense of the world around them.


Our Products

Win the White House

Our newest product is designed to get students as young as twelve thinking about foreign policy and why it matters. Players must use their critical thinking skills in this educational video game, as they navigate twenty gameplay scenarios that reveal how foreign and domestic policy are intertwined, and how decisions made in one corner of the world can affect us all.

Convene the Council

Developed in partnership with iCivics, one of the nation’s leading providers of educational games, Convene the Council empowers students to understand the basics of how U.S. foreign policy gets made and the ways in which countries and international organizations can influence foreign policy priorities. The game is available in a Spanish-language version and comes with classroom support resources. Players can access Convene the Council on iCivics’ website or as an app on iOS and Android phones and tablets.

Visit World101

Our award-winning collection of multimedia explainers is a starting point for students with little or no background knowledge of international relations and foreign policy. With accessible, jargon-free language and instructor-designed teaching resources, lessons on the growing World101 platform are non-partisan and developed in partnership with CFR experts.

World101

World101 lessons can be used individually or strung together to form unique courses of study. They are broken into five distinct units that cover:

  • Global Era Issues
  • Regions of the World
  • How the World Works. . . and Sometimes Doesn’t
  • Historical Context
  • Foreign Policy

In 2020, the American Association of School Librarians named World101 one of the year’s “Best Digital Tools” in recognition of its innovative contributions to career advancement and college readiness.

Visit Model Diplomacy

The Model Diplomacy simulation program invites high-school, college, and graduate students to step into the shoes of decision-makers on the National Security Council or United Nations Security Council to debate the world’s most pressing issues with dozens of full-length case studies, an expanding library of short-form scenarios covering current and historical events, and exclusive video content featuring commentary from foreign policy experts.

Model Diplomacy

Used in all fifty states and over one hundred countries by high schools, colleges and universities, military academies, international organizations, and the U.S. and foreign governments, Model Diplomacy teaches students about the issues, institutions, and processes involved in foreign policymaking, and develops critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills.

In 2021, the Model Diplomacy team was honored to be featured as one of Common Sense Media’s Top Ten Social Studies Tools for High School.


Our Partners

CivXNow

We are a proud member of CivXNow - a national, bipartisan coalition of over 100 organizations focused on expanding and improving our nation’s civic education. In today’s global era, this must include issues of international relations and foreign policy. The goal of helping every school, nationwide, fulfill its vital civic mission of equipping students with the knowledge, skills, and perspective required to participate as an informed and engaged citizen lies at the center of our global literacy initiative.

AASCU's American Democracy Project
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Composer Education
Council for Economic Education
Digital Promise, Accelerating Innovation in Education
Friendship Ambassadors
Gilder Lehrman, Institute of American History
iCivics
Made by Us
Nearpod
NYC Department of Education
Princeton Youth Program for Civic Engagement
Share my Lesson
Subject to Climate


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