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Powerful Skills for the 21st Century  \nLynne McClendon  \nSCOLT Executive Director  \nThe theme for the 46th conference reflects the growing recognition of the value of language acquisition as a tool for 21st century citizens. Being able in another language to communicate information, know-how, and expertise—all rooted in content knowledge and application—elevates the level at which a person is capable of interacting. America’s future, from many reports, is increasingly going to need precisely this type of interaction from its citizens to keep our country competitive and in a leadership role. However, the educational system has yet to embrace a comprehensive plan for ensuring students have access to quality articulated long-sequenced programs of language study. At least one program on the national landscape, the Partnership for the 21st Century Skills, has included foreign language study in its attempt to reexamine the educational direction for the United States.  \nThe Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) was founded in 2002 through a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Education and several organizations: AOL Time Warner Foundation, Apple Computer, Inc., Cable in the Classroom, Cisco Systems, Inc., Dell Computer Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, National Education Association, and SAP. This organization’s mission was to build collaborative partnerships among education, business, community, and government leaders. These partners sought to develop a snapshot of the sort of education a person living and working in the 21st century would need to be selfsustaining and a productive member of society. The snapshot would provide direction for redesigning educational systems to support those needs.  \nThe Partnership went directly to the educational and business communities to take the pulse of the nation from the standpoint of what employers saw the workforce needing in knowledge and skills to continue, improve, and grow business and industry of the United States. Through surveys and other research approaches, various themes emerged, and they helped formulate the P21 Framework, which is outlined in the following pages.  \nThe Partnership has endured some criticism that its focus seems to highlight skills rather than a mastery of core academic subjects, but with any emerging document, the scope and multiple components of such an undertaking may seem skewed. The educational focus for years has been on basic reading, writing, and mathematical skills and content knowledge. While today these basic  \n16 Dimension 2011: Got Languages? Powerful Skills for the 21st Century  \neducational building blocks are and will be still needed, learners also need an array of other skills. The work of the P21 has sought to identify other skills, and hence, such research has given rise to the notion that core academic subjects are somehow less important, which is not the case. The Framework and other 21st Century documents view all the components as fully interconnected for 21st century teaching and learning.  \nWhat follows are excerpts from two documents published by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and they are reprinted here by permission from this organization. The first excerpt is taken from The MILE Guide: Milestones for Improving Learning and Education (2009), and it shows an overview of the core subjects, skills, and themes. The overview is provided to give readers some insight into the nature of this educational framework. Readers are invited to view all the documents and the organizational history at \u003C [http://www.p21.org/](http://www.p21.org/)>. It is important to understand that the P21 does not prescribe one way to “get on board” but allows states to show how their plan supports the P21 principles. Readers may view various state approaches outlined at the P21 Web site.  \nThe second excerpt is taken from Are They Really Ready for Work?, which is a longer document produced by the joint efforts of The Conference B","cbCaiqeVGwyd8C8Y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqeVGwyd8C8Y","pdf",23651,"English","# Got Languages? 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