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and begin building a coalition for change that supports 21st century education reform. The reform vision is shaped by the seamless use of video and collaborative, virtualized resources to support improved access to quality teaching. It tests and validates Education 3.0 models as a basis for local, national, and global education transformation through networking, consultancy, coaching support, events, and support for local challenges.
Partnership for Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills As part of a new approach to meeting their corporate and social responsibilities, Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft announced a multi-year Partnership for Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (
www.atc21s.org) at the Learning and Technology World Forum in 2009. This project brings together 256 academic, not-for-profi t, government, and corporate agencies from 24 countries, including 82 U.S. agencies and academics, to make the transformation of educational assessment and instructional practice a priority. The partnership works closely with the OECD and IEA on their respective international benchmarking and assessment programs.
Cisco Global Education also serves as an advisor to a number of organizations, including the Council of Chief State School Offi cers (CCSSO). Cisco’s work with national organizations like CCSSO helps shape innovative new programs like EdSteps (
www.edsteps.org) that generate cutting-edge approaches to articulating, teaching, and assessing 21st century skills.
Cisco® Networking Academy®
Cisco Networking Academy is an innovative global education initiative that helps students of all ages develop foundational and advanced skills in networking and information communications technology (ICT).
Networking Academy is a unique, public-private partnership between education and community-based organizations, and national, state and local governments. It is the largest Cisco corporate social responsibility education program, with courses taught at more than 9,800 academies in 165 countries worldwide. More than 900,000 students develop IT skills through the program each year.
Networking Academy prepares American students and workers for sustainable, high-paying jobs by teaching them in-demand IT and networking skills. With Academies located in high schools, community colleges, universities, and nontraditional settings, the program teaches technical skills through timely, focused curricula mapped to industry certifi cations.
• Networking Academy curricula include instructor-led course content, online learning and skills assessments, hands-on labs, and innovative simulation technology.
• Since the inception of the program in 1997, the estimated contribution from Cisco is over $300 million in the United States alone. Networking Academy provides seamless pathways from high school to post-secondary, and on into the workforce.
• Of the more than 137,000 students enrolled annually in the U.S. Networking Academies, 41% take Networking Academy courses located in high schools.
• Strengthening upper secondary instruction for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a prerequisite to developing a well-trained 21st century workforce.
High school educators have placed considerable emphasis on the science and math components of the STEM curricula, but technology and engineering are equally vital. In
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