Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She has been a guest professor at Humboldt University, Berlin; Stanford University; O.I.S.E. at University of Toronto; University of London Institute of Education. She is 2009 President of the U.S. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and committee member of the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies. Her two most recent publications are "The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending "(2004) and "Educational Import: Local Encoun...