A global framework also allows us to look cross-nationally at international trends in global citizenship education rather than more tedious and often less meaningful country-by-country comparisons. While country-by-country comparisons are useful if undertaken for specific reasons and if the information gleaned from these analyses takes national context into consideration, cross-national analyses are often much more useful. In particular, cross-national examinations of schooling lead to the identification of educational trends that can be more easily applied to or analyzed in the American context than by more limiting country-specific analyses.