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[|List of Publications] is a list of publications available for download that were produced by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

List of Publications
 * Newsletters:**
 * [|Summer 2008]
 * [|Winter 2008]
 * State Initiatives:**
 * 21st Century Skills in Maine (2007)
 * [|21st Century Skills in North Carolina] (2008)
 * 21st Century Skills in South Dakota (2007)
 * [|21st Century Skills in West Virginia](2008)
 * [|21st Century Skills in Wisconsin] (2008)
 * Route 21 White Papers:**
 * [|21st Century Learning Environments]
 * [|21st Century Skills Standards]
 * [|21st Century Skills Assessment]
 * [|21st Century Skills Professional Development]
 * [|21st Century Skills Curriculum and Instruction]
 * Reports:**
 * [|Brief: Policy Recommendations on Preparing Americans for the Global Skills Race] (2008)
 * [|21st Century Skills Education and Competitiveness Guide] (2008)
 * [|Arizona Summit on 21st Century Skills] (2008)
 * [|Moving Education Forward] (March 2008)
 * [|Maximizing the Impact: The Pivotal Role of Technology in a 21st Century Education System] (2007)
 * [|Beyond the Three Rs: Voter Attitudes toward 21st Century Skills] (2007)
 * [|Are They Really Ready to Work?] (2006)
 * [|Key Findings: Are They Really Ready To Work?] (2006)
 * [|Virtual Schools and 21st Century Skills] (2006)
 * [|State Leaders Action Guide] (2006)
 * [|Results That Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform] (2006)
 * [|Assessment of 21st Century Skills: The Current Landscape] (2005)
 * [|Route to the 21st Century: A Policymaker's Guide] (2003)
 * [|Learning for the 21st Century] (2002)
 * Current Issues and Overviews (1-2 pagers):**
 * [|Framework Overview] (2009)
 * [|P21 Brochure] (2008)
 * [|Route 21 Overview] (2007)
 * [|Beyond the Three Rs: Key Messages] (2007)
 * [|State Standards for the 21st Century] (2006)
 * [|Professional Development for the 21st Century] (2006)
 * [|Assessment of 21st Century Skills] (2006)
 * [|Principles for Connecting High School Reform and 21st Century Skills] (2006)
 * [|NCLB Principles Statement] (2007)
 * [|NCLB, High Schools and College Readiness Letter] (2006)
 * [|Future of Higher Education Letter] (2006)
 * 21st Century Skills Maps**
 * [|Social Studies] (2008)/[|Download B&W Social Studies Map>]
 * [|English] (2008)/[|Download B&W English Map]
 * ICT Literacy Maps:**
 * [|ICT Literacy Map: Social Studies] (2007)
 * Supporting Publications:**
 * [|SHRM 2007] [|Workforce Readiness of the Future U.S. Labor - Executive Summary] (Nov 2007)

Mrs. Lyon's Classroom Daily Schedule (PDF). Here's an interesting look at an ohio 4th grade teacher's day. "Use the tools to teach and teach the students to lead lessons..."

[|Seventeen Reasons Why Football is Better Than High School]

By Herb Childress
 * WE DEFINE SCHOOL as a place of learning.** But as I visited classes in the high school in which I was an observer for a year, what I saw mostly -- and what the students told me about most frequently -- was not learning at all but //boredom//. I saw students talking in class, not listening to lectures, having conversations instead of working on their study guides, putting their heads on their desks, and tuning out. Teachers talked about what a struggle it was to get students to turn in their homework at all, much less on time. Students picked up enough information to pass the test, did their work well enough to get the grade, and then totally forgot whatever it can be said that they had learned...

[|90 days of summer.pdf]

By Dave Edyburn This PDF is a daily dose of special education technology professional development for education professionals. It was produced to give teachers links to try for 10-20 minutes each summer day to explore new ideas, skills, and resources. We're experiencing some heavy snowfalls right about now, so the "90 days of Summer" title could easily be changed to, "90 days of Snow". The information and websites are just as good on a winter's day as they are on a summer's day. //(big file- may take a couple minutes to download)//

[|Twenty-First-Century Assessment]
The demands of the today's world require students learn many skills. A knowledge-based, highly technological economy requires that students master higher-order thinking skills and that they are able to see the relationships among seemingly diverse concepts. These abilities -- recall, analysis, comparison, inference, and evaluation -- will be the skills of a literate twenty-first-century citizen. And they are the kinds of skills that aren't measured by our current high-stakes tests.

=[|Using Twitter as an Education Tool]= By [|Ron Jones], Search Engine Watch,  Sep 25, 2008

Are you [|using Twitter] yet? If not, you may want to read how other educators are using Twitter as an education tool. For those who are coming up to speed, [|Twitter] lets you broadcast or microblog your messages (140 characters max) to a group of friends or other subscribers, who can receive them as text messages, called a "tweet," to your subscribers and their mobile phones. Since almost everyone has a mobile phone now this makes Twitter more effective as a communication tool.