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Proponents of the International Baccalaureate program, which issues international educational degrees accepted as qualification for college-level institutions around the world, argue that it serves to break down artificial educational barriers and even "is a tiny segment of the vast work for world order," while some critics contend that it is elitist and fundamentally a mechanism for class reproduction. Tarc (international education, U. of Western Ontario, Canada) steers a middle ground in his analysis of the program, arguing that the global dreams of the program are not mere empty rhetoric, even if the program's professed values have not consistently been expressed in practice. He analyzes the citizenship, curricular, and operational tensions within the program that hamper its educational and internationalists goals and explores how the program has responded to those tensions over time. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
