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| Reading Rockets Ready for Takeoff in the Gateway to 21st Century Skills |
| The 13th annual NEA Read across America will get special support this year by teaming up JES & Co.'s Gateway to 21st Century Skills' editorial staff and Reading Rockets, a non-profit content provider. |
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| Presentation at ECDL 2009 |
| Read the poster, "Conceptual Discovery of Educational Resources through Learning Objectives" by Stuart A. Sutton and Diny Golder, that was presented at the Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2009, held in Corfu, Greece. |
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| Australia to join JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network |
| At the annual National Science Distributed Learning conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), participants learned how JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network (ASN) framework is being used by Australia's Curriculum Corporation in an effort to link educational resource data globally. |
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| JES & Co. JES & Co. to Present at CoSN 2010 Conference |
| Diny Golder, Executive Director of JES & Co. and Jillian Dellit, Director of the Learning Federation Secretariat will co-present during the upcoming CoSN Conference 2010: Innovation, Ingenuity and Insight to be held March 1-2, 2010 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. |
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| JES & Co. Joins IMS Global Learning Consortium |
| JES & Co. announced today that they have joined IMS Global Learning Consortium as a Contributing Member to support development of interoperability standards for the K12/ Common Cartridge Curriculum Standards project. This work will be part of the Common Cartridge v1.1 release, which will enable curriculum standards (e.g. learning objectives) to be contained with the learning materials of a Common Cartridge. As a result, teachers will gain greater precision in identifying appropriate materials for their students and schools can more systematically track student progression. |
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| NEA's Read Across America, Reading Rockets Lift Off With the Gateway to 21st Century Skills! |
| Reading Rockets and the Gateway to 21st Century Skills have come together in support of NEA's Read Across America. Both non-profit organizations have announced a year-round collaboration project making Reading Rockets material easily discoverable using the Gateway's state of the art cataloging and search technologies. The Gateway to 21st Century Skills, a JES & Co. project, is sponsored by NEA. The site features free access to over 50,000 learning resources from over 700 contributing members and is targeted for NEA's 3.2 million members along with the general public. |
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| Huge Increase in Bookmarking of the Gateway to 21st Century Skills |
| Hard economic times and limited educational budgets have teachers scrambling for free, quality learning resource. This fall, innovative and frugal educators have turned to specialty online Web 2.0 search tools like The Gateway to 21st Century Skills as a way to keep students learning. |
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| The Verizon Foundation Supports JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network |
| Non-profits, research organizations, and universities have found a friend in JES & Co., a non-profit research organization dedicated to facilitating a 21st century education for all Americans. Thanks to recent funding from the Verizon Foundation, JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network (ASN) database of publicly available state academic standards has grown from the National Science Foundation's support in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects, to now include English Language Arts, Social Studies, Economics, Geography and the Arts. |
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| Breakthrough Update on the TeachEngineering Digital Library |
| After an enormous amount of sustained work and great collaboration with JES & Co. and the Center for Natural Language Processing (Syracuse University), on October 8, 2008, the TeachEngineering team released a new version of its K-12 engineering collection for which all 700+ curricular items are aligned to the K-12 math and science educational standards of all 50 states. |
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| To help teachers deliver curricula that provide students with technology skills, Microsoft has partnered with Making Opportunities for Upgrading Students & Education (MOUSE) and JES & Co. |
| To help teachers deliver curricula that provide students with technology skills, Microsoft has partnered with Making Opportunities for Upgrading Students & Education (MOUSE) and JES & Co. to create the following resources: Deploying student technical support solutions; Understanding and building basic networks; Developing basic applications using Visual Basic .Net |
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| Journal of Chemical Education: |
| Are you ready to correlate resources to state academic standards? The ASN is ready to help. |
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| JES & Co. helps Warner Robbins, GA school excel. |
| Houston County High School has been recognized on CNN and in over seven national publications over the last two years for the integration of technology accross the curriculum. Named an Intel Model School, a Hitachi Beta School, and a Promethean Case Study Program School, Houston County High boasts not simply an abundance of hardware, but rather a totally wireless environment that utilizes technology as a tool to enhance student learning in every classroom. |
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| JES & Co. and Tierra Del Oro Consulting join CNAC as part of the REL Appalachia partnership. |
| JES &Co. and Tierra Del Oro Consulting join CNAC as part of the REL Appalachia partnership. |
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| Curriki |
| Curriki is a community of partners who are all working to improve education by using technology to make learning resources readily available to all who need them. Our work is facilitated by our partners who have generously shared their resources with us, as well as sponsors who have supported our efforts with funding or technology. |
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| NSF, three NSDL projects |
| NSF, three NSDL projects which are
engaged in education standards correlation and
assignment work have combined efforts in several areas
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| Diny Golder and Stuart Sutton of the GEM Exchange |
| Diny Golder and Stuart Sutton of the GEM Exchange are now included to help investigate ways to make the Institute of Museums and Libraries Collection Registry and Metadata Repository more useful to the educational community and to look at integrating GEM cataloging tools into our project. |
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| Route 21: An Interactive Guide to 21st Century Learning |
| Route 21: An Interactive Guide to 21st Century Learning, is a collection of web-based tools designed to support and promote achievement of ICT literacy and 21st century skills. |
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| April 28, 2005 -
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| GEM Exchange Memorandum of Understanding Signed |
| Program directors from two university information schools and a non-profit education
organization have agreed to work together to expand the Enhanced Gateway to Education Materials
(GEM) educational web sites... |
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| February 03, 2005 -
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| It's All About The Standards, Man |
| eSchool News talks about the JES & Co. work on the Achievement Standards Framework. |
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| October 19, 2004 -
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| JES & Co. Announces Free Version of Popular Resource Locator Software |
| New version of the Academic Standards and Assessment System free for non-commercial education use to include academic standards and access to eduction resources. |
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| October 07, 2004 -
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| NSDL Whiteboard Report - JES & Co. Invites Participation in Advisory Group |
| Invitation to the NSDL Community to Join Education Resource Special Interest Group. |
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