The Pinehurst Conference on Global Perspectives provided an opportunity to clarify many of the issues, objectives, and problems in global education programs in schools. The 34 conference participants included educators, federal government educational personnel, state departments of education representatives, and delegates from global and international education organizations. Among the issues discussed were objectives of education, role of global education in meeting educational objectives, relationship of global perspectives to domestic and international society, teaching and curriculum resources, community global study groups, contributions of foreign language and area studies to global perspectives, international educational exchange programs, global interdependence, and world problems. Conference speakers generally stressed that global interdependence should be included in the curriculum and that educators will be more effective in developing and implementing global education programs if they are committed to a global perspective. (DB)