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3 Steps for 21st Century Learning
1Transform your classroom into a creative
learning space.2Teach students the skills of
competition, cooperation and collaboration.3Int
roduce your students to their global peersand
provide the opportunity for them to collaborate.
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Senate bill supports 21st-century skills!
States offering students curriculum options that
integrate key 21st-century skills would receive
matching federal funds through an incentive bill
introduced in the U.S. Senate May 13 by West
Virginia Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV
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Bill Gates We will work with some of the best
teachers to put their lectures online as a model
for other teachers and as a resource for
students."
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Bill Gates
It is amazing how big a difference a great
teacher makes versus an ineffective one. If
you want your child to get the best education
possible, it is actually more important to get
him assigned to a great teacher than to a great
school," he wrote.
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New Jersey to study personalized learning
plans The New Jersey Department of Education is
testing individual student-learning plans at 16
middle and high schools. Starting in the fall,
every sixth- and ninth-grader will get a
personalized plan with academic, career and
personal goals. The results at the schools will
help educators determine whether to implement the
program statewide beginning in the sixth grade.
                                       
      
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More schools are adopting extended schedules At
a New Jersey charter school, the majority of
students stay until at least 5 p.m., and the
school stays open at least 205 days a year,
compared with the state minimum of 180. Among
urban public schools in the state, the school had
the highest state test scores in 2008. It's also
one of the country's top "high-poverty,
high-achieving" schools.
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Educators Twitter may help students learn Some
educators say Twitter can be used in creative
ways to enhance classroom lessons, such as
facilitating book discussions and creating online
study groups for students. One high-school
teacher says including social-networking sites in
lessons keeps students more engaged, but another
says using the sites can make it easier for
students to cheat and can expose them to Internet
predators.
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All students should graduate from high school
prepared to succeed in college, career, and life.
U.S. graduation and college-readiness rates are
unacceptably low. Nationwide just over 70
percent of students graduate from high school.
Graduation rates for African-American,
Hispanic, and low-income students are lower
still, hovering at slightly more than 50 percent.
Even with a diploma, only half of graduates
leave high school prepared to succeed in college,
career, and life.
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"The goal is quite simple Get kids a great
education so they can go on to college and pursue
a profession thatfor both them and the
countrywill be very rewarding." Bill Gates on
improving education in the United States
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Even kindergarten children can make a difference
in the world by participating in real-life,
real-world service learning projects. 
You're never too young, or too old, to
make your voice heard and create change that
makes the world a better place.
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• It is bold. 
• It breaks the mold. 
• It is flexible, creative, challenging, and
  complex.
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• It addresses a rapidly changing world filled with
  fantastic new problems as well as exciting new
  possibilities. 

So what is 21st century education?