The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), signed into law on December 13, 2016, is designed to help accelerate medical product development and bring new innovations and advances to patients who need them faster and more efficiently.
On October 8, 2010, President Obama signed the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) into law. The CVAA updates federal communications law to increase the access of persons with disabilities to modern communications. The CVAA makes sure that accessibility laws enacted in the 1980s and 1990s are brought up to date with 21st century technologies, including new digital, broadband, and mobile innovations. The following are highlights of the law.
21st Century Talent Regions are places that commit to using a systems approach to attract, develop, and connect Hoosier talent. Regions are self-defined with regard to their geography and are working toward building and implementing a plan to increase educational attainment, raise household income, and grow population.
Designated 21st Century Talent Regions have collaborated by creating a core working team, along with a larger stakeholder team, to successfully build a regional stakeholder map and a data-driven talent dashboard outlining shared regional initiatives focused on talent attraction, development and connection. Each regional team continues to work together to develop shared goals and implement a plan to increase educational attainment, raise household income and grow population.
The list containing regional contact(s) for each 21st Century Talent Region can be found here. Please feel free to reach out to the regional contact(s) for more information on how you can become engaged.
To meet current trade challenges, transformational reform is needed in order to protect American workers and business, ensure fair competition, increase transparency and accountability in the supply chain, and enable the swift and secure movement of legitimate goods across the U.S. border. The 21st Century Customs Framework is a strategic initiative that seeks to achieve these outcomes by pursuing the following goals:
The Department will review submissions using a scoring rubric for overall goals and participation of student, teacher, parental, and community engagement of the 21st CCLC program. The scoring rubric can be viewed here.
The Future Leaders Organization is a 21st CCLC program located in Pleasantville, New Jersey that serves students in grades 3-12. Its purpose is to give underprivileged students the resources and support they need to succeed in life through cross-curricular learning opportunities that encourage life-long learning. By engaging the whole youth both mentally and physically, Future Leaders is bridging the achievement gap one youth at a time. Some of the activities offered to students include social and emotional learning, podcasting, arts and crafts, gardening, graphic design, puzzles, computer science, STEM, meditation, and many more.
The Georgia Department of Education used supplemental funds from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) to design and host an innovative exploratory camp for all 21st CCLC middle school sites in the Douglas County School System. The purpose of the camp was to offer 21st CCLC student participants exposure to high school career pathways early in their educational journey and encourage students to consider attending high school college and career pathways or magnet programs.
The Douglas County Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) partnered with teachers from across each of our high school program pathways and College and Career Institute facilitators to host a one-day CTAE Camp experience at the College Career Institute (CCI) on the West Georgia Technical College Campus for each 21st CCLC program middle school site.
On July 6, 2012, President Obama signed into law a new two year transportation reauthorization bill, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act ("MAP-21"; P.L. 112-141). This new law includes many important provisions intended to help the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in its important mission to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses. Many of the provisions in MAP-21 track the Agency's strategic framework to improve commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety by supporting its three core principles:
Program Overview: The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21) supports the training and professional development of library and archives professionals; developing faculty and information leaders; and recruiting, educating, and retaining the next generation of library and archives professionals in order to develop a diverse library and archival workforce and meet the information needs of their communities.
The 21st Century Scholars Program was established in 1990 to ensure that income eligible 7th and 8th grade Hoosiers have access to Higher Education. Students who enroll in the program and fulfill the Scholar Pledge are guaranteed up to four years of undergraduate tuition at any participating public College or University in Indiana.
Once accepted and enrolled full-time at an eligible institution, the 21st Century Scholarship will be disbursed directly to the college on behalf of the student. Money will NOT be paid directly to the student.
Your 21st Century Scholars award can be used at an eligible public, private (independent), or proprietary school in Indiana. For a complete list of schools, please visit the Indiana Department of Education.
Yes. You may transfer or withdraw once you begin college. However, you must file a FAFSA each and every year by the state deadline. Additionally, the 21st Century Scholarship must be used within eight (8) years after the date the student first becomes eligible for the scholarship.
The 21st Century Community Learning Center is a federally funded program supported by the New Jersey Department of Education for out-of-school-time programs in New Jersey, which include those before school, after school or in the summer.
Under Title IV, Part B of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), 21st CCLC are defined as centers that provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students meet the challenging state academic standards. The centers also offer a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities in such areas as the following: youth development activities; service learning, nutrition and health education; drug and violence prevention; counseling; arts, music, physical fitness and wellness education; technology education; financial literacy; environmental literacy; and mathematics, science, career and technical programs. The centers also provide internship or apprenticeship programs and other ties to an in-demand industry sector or occupation for high school students that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students and their adult family members when school is not in session.
According to the legislation, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program is intended to: 1) assist students to meet the challenging state academic standards by providing them with academic enrichment; 2) offer a broad array of activities during non-school hours or periods when school is not in session (such as before and after school or during summer recess); and 3) offer families of students served by the centers the opportunity for active and meaningful engagement in their children's education that includes literacy programs.
The core services of a 21st CCLC program must be those services and/or activities that advance student achievement using the 12 program categories outlined in the federal guidance that are offered during out-of-school-time hours. Out-of-school-time programs should reflect a commitment to promoting knowledge, skills and understanding through enriching, hands-on, creative learning opportunities that do not extend, but complement the school day. The core services fit into four main categories:
The Toxicology in the 21st Century (Tox21) program is a federal collaboration among NCATS, the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Tox21 researchers aim to develop better toxicity assessment methods to quickly and efficiently test whether certain chemical compounds have the potential to disrupt processes in the human body that may lead to negative health effects. Learn more about the goals of the Tox21 program.
What are 21st century skills, why do they matter, and how can your district implement 21st century learning strategies into curriculum, assessment, and instruction? This guide shares information, research, and examples to bring you up to speed.
Districts, schools, and organizations prioritize different 21st century skills depending on what is most important to their respective communities. Generally, however, educators agree that schools must weave these skills into learning experiences and common core instruction. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the most commonly cited 21st century skills.
We've reviewed the definition of 21st century skills and why they're important in a changing world. Now, let's review a few frameworks and how school districts are putting 21st century learning into practice.
This popular framework was designed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21). Describing the skills, knowledge, and expertise students must master to succeed in work and life, the framework combines content knowledge, specific skills, expertise, and literacies. P21 believes that the "base" of 21st century learning is the acquisition of key academic subject knowledge, and that schools must build on that base with additional skills including Learning Skills, Life Skills, and Literacy Skills.
Everett Public Schools in Everett, Washington defines 21st century skills as citizenship, collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and growth mindset. The district believes that graduates are college, career, and life ready when they have the academic knowledge, attitudes, and skills to transition to college level coursework, workforce training, and/or employment.