Educational Leadership

This morning I finally glanced at the March issue of Educational Leadership, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) journal. I was struck by how American centric the journal seemed to be. One article entitled "Five Trends for Schools" states early on, "The United States houses less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it is the third most populous country in the world, after China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion). The United States is expected to be the only developed country on the top-10 list of most populous countries by 2050..."

Could somebody please define the term "developed country" for me?
I thought China has the fastest growing economy in the world, the largest shopping centers in the world, and the most available jobs in the world. Shouldn't that qualify it as a developed country?
Actually now that I think about it, I'm not even sure that I like the word "developed." Shouldn't nations continuously be developing?

The article is titled, "Five Trends for Schools." Here are the five trends:
1. The Enrollment Roller Coaster
2. Immigration and Diversity
3. The Varied Home Front
4. An Aging Population
5. Obesity
I think these brief titles aptly describe the associated content.

The theme of the entire journal is "Responding to Changing Demographics." I agree the demographics of our nation are nation drastically. But rather than looking inwards it's time to start looking outwards. Not one article in the journal emphasized the importance of considering global demographics.

Is anyone else concerned?

Take a look at the journal for yourself. Why do you think it has the structure it has?