Our member organizations are advancing 21st Century Skills through innovative tools, programs and policies:

Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe is committed to making local communities stronger, more vibrant places to live, work and do business. Adobe provides cash grants and in-kind contributions, including software products, volunteer support, and software training to K-12 schools and nonprofit organizations. Resources support initiatives that inspire the use of digital technology in education, promote the arts and culture, protect the environment, improve electronic information access for the disabled, and address hunger and homelessness.

Apple
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online store. 

American Association of School Librarians
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), provides leadership for the development of dynamic, student-centered school library media programs. These programs help ensure that students master the information literacy skills needed to be discerning consumers and creative producers of information and ideas.

Blackboard
Blackboard offers K-12 schools and districts a central online hub of teaching, learning and community development to enhance academic performance.  Each day over 12 million learners around the world impact education and make new connections with the support of Blackboard solutions.  Highly scalable, easy-to-use, and focused on student engagement and achievement, Blackboard's Learning Management Platform is used by K-12 districts nationwide to prepare students for the 21st Century.

Cable in the Classroom
Cable in the Classroom is the cable telecommunications industry's non-profit education foundation. For over 15 years, we have focused on ensuring quality education for the 21st century by improving teaching and learning in schools, at home and in the community through the use of new technologies and engaging content.

Cengage Learning
Cengage serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs - from homework help to health questions to business profiles - in a variety of formats - books, Web-based solutions and microfilm.

Cisco Systems
Cisco’s commitment to education supports the company’s mission to enable the Internet to help "change the way people live, work, play, and learn"(sm). Cisco’s products and services for Schools and Higher Education are aimed at assisting educators in their improving academic excellence and administrative efficiency. The company’s educational focus also includes innovative programs, such as the Networking Academy, the Cisco Foundation, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Crayola
Crayola is world renown for making children’s lives more colorful and inspiring their creative expression. For over 100 years we’ve been champions of children’s creativity and have provided them with colorful tools to express their thoughts and feelings. Our long history of partnership with parents, educators, and children is deeply rooted in trust and the importance of hands-on learning in education. As we look to the future, we know children need to develop skills as creative, collaborative, and self-directed learners—key to their success in the 21st Century.

Dell, Inc.
Students in the Dell TechKnow program receive a free refurbished Dell desktop computer and work in teams to learn computer basics. Students learn how to take apart and re-build the computer, install software; upgrade, diagnose and fix basic hardware problems; and how to use the word processing and educational software. In addition, students must meet certain program requirements such as attending school, demonstrating good citizenship and sustaining or improving their grades. Upon completion of the course, students earn a refurbished Dell desktop computer, operating system and software to take home and one year of free Internet access.

Education Networks of America
ENA is a leading Managed Internet Service Provider that provides managed network and communication solutions for schools and libraries.  Since 1996, ENA has established a reputation as experts in the design, deployment, and operation of broadly distributed networks. ENA designed and deployed one of the first statewide K-12 networks in the U.S. connecting all schools and school districts in the State of Tennessee.  ENA currently manages multiple statewide and district wide education and library networks successfully connecting over 5,000 end sites, 560 school districts and 230 libraries, more than 2.5 million students, teachers and administrators, and more than 6.2 million librarians and patrons. Customers know ENA as a reliable partner with expert knowledge in IP communications, E-Rate and other funding sources, and value-added customized services. Our technology solutions connect people and make reaching and using valuable information as easy and reliable as turning on the lights.

Educational Testing Service
The ETS® ICT Literacy Assessment measures how well students interact with simulated software to perform information management tasks such as extracting information from a library database, developing a spreadsheet, using a Web browser to conduct a search, or composing an e-mail based on research findings. Each scenario-based task presents several opportunities for students to demonstrate their ability to use technology to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information. The assessment tests cognitive skills in a technological environment and is available at two difficulty levels. Scores can support institutional ICT literacy initiatives, inform articulation decisions, guide ICT curricula innovations, and assess individual student proficiency. For more information, visit www.ets.org/ictliteracy.

EF Education
EF Education, the world's largest private education company, has been committed to its mission of breaking down barriers of language, culture and geography for more than 40 years.

EF Educational Tours allows educators to enrich their classroom teaching through international travel.  Our tours help student groups "learn it by living it" as they experience firsthand the world's very best historic, cultural and natural sights.  For more information on EF Educational Tours, visit http://www.eftours.com/.

HP
HP is committed to K-12 education and personalizing the learning experience for today's student. HP understands and appreciates the needs and challenges of 21st century schools and provides technologies that keep educational institutions at the forefront of change. For more information, go to www.hp.com/go/K12. 

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt represents the brands of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  School Publishers • Holt McDougal • Rigby • Saxon • Great Source • Steck-Vaughn • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology • The Riverside Publishing Company  •  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt International Publishers • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade and Reference Publishers • Greenwood-Heinemann

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company combines a tradition of excellence with a commitment to innovation, providing comprehensive best-in-class pre-K – 12 educational solutions, research-based assessments, and award-winning literature and reference materials.  

Intel® Corporation
Intel's work with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills is part of the Intel® Education Initiative, a sustained commitment to prepare students with the skills required to succeed as the next generation of innovators in a growing knowledge economy.  As a global technology leader, Intel is committed not only to creating innovative technology, but to helping people around the world to use it effectively to better their lives. Through collaboration with educators and governments in more than 50 countries, Intel delivers programs that improve the effective use of technology to enhance 21st century learning, and encourage excellence in mathematics, science, and engineering, such as the Intel Teach Program, Intel Computer Clubhouse Network, Intel Schools of Distinction, Intel Science and Engineering Fair, and Intel Science Talent Search.  To learn more, visit: www.intel.com/education.

JA Worldwide®
JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement) is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students in grades K-12 about entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. JA Worldwide’s dedicated volunteers provide in-school and after-school programs to approximately 10 million students per year in the United States and more than 120 other countries.

Learning Point Associates
Learning Point Associates is a nonprofit educational organization with more than 20 years of direct experience working with and for educators and policymakers to transform education systems and student learning. At Learning Point Associates, we don't prescribe a single "fix" or sell a product. We listen to each client's unique needs and then apply the best research, state-of-the art tools and direct experiences to guide teachers, administrators and leaders in making choices that make education better. We direct our research, evaluation, policy and practice work to create change at every level of the education system-classroom, school, district, state and national. We are known nationally for our leadership in afterschool services, district and school improvement and educator quality.

The LEGO Group
The LEGO Group is a private company with its headquarters in Billund, Denmark, where it was founded in 1932. Today we market quality toys to children and adults throughout the world. Toys that transport children through time and imagination – at the same time developing their creative and problem solving skills.

Our core product is the classic LEGO® brick, and in 2006 our 4,000 employees in 28 countries generated sales of nearly DKK 8 billion (more than EUR 1bn). This positioned the LEGO Group as the world’s fifth largest toy manufacturer.

Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building the world's best engineered personal computers and enhancing education at all levels through the innovative use of technology. Lenovo's business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets.  Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com.

Measured Progress
Measured Progress is a full-service provider of customized, integrated, standards-based assessment and professional development solutions for states, districts, and schools nationwide. A not-for-profit organization, Measured Progress is deeply committed to our mission of helping to improve teaching and learning for all students. It's all about student learning. Period.

MHz Networks
MHz Networks is an independent, non-commercial broadcaster, headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area. We bring the best of world programming to globally-minded American viewers, with a mission of developing global literacy and understanding.
 
Ten 24/7 channels are available to the Washington, D.C. television market from MHz Networks via broadcast (OTA), cable, satellite and telco. Broadcasters on these channels include: NHK World TV, Metro Chinese Network, RT (formerly Russia Today), Al Jazeera English, SABC News International, France 24, Ethiopian TV, Vietnam Television 4, and euronews.
 
MHz Worldview, MHz Networks national channel, brings programming to over 30 million U.S. households though broadcast and cable affiliates, as well as DirecTV and Galaxy 19 satellite. The channel features programs from around the world, authentic, direct from the source and in English, including content from premier international news broadcasters, as well as drama, documentaries, series, music, sport and more.
 
MHz Networks is deploying content on a series of new technologies, including mobile, broadband (Roku digital video player, Hulu) and innovative retail, as well as an expanded interactive presence. MHz America, a channel meant to connect a global audience with an intimate picture of the U.S. through documentary and locally produced programming, is intended for export across the globe.
 
For more information, visit www.mhznetworks.org.

Microsoft
As a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to education and learning, Microsoft has launched a new global initiative called Partners in Learning. Under Partners in Learning, Microsoft is partnering with Government, Ministries of Education, and other key stakeholders to offer a spectrum of education resources-tools, programs, and practices-to empower students and teachers to realize their full potential.

National Academy Foundation
The National Academy Foundation (NAF) was founded more than 27 years ago as a partnership between business leaders and educators. NAF is an acclaimed network of college-preparatory, career-themed academies – schools-within-schools – including the Academy of Finance, the Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Hospitality & Tourism and the Academy of Information Technology.

Each year, NAF serves more than 50,000 students in 41 states and the District of Columbia. The organization has achieved remarkable results: 90 percent graduation rates for participants, and more than 80 percent of graduates go on to college.

Employees of more than 2,500 businesses now support NAF students by securing paid internships, volunteering in classrooms, acting as mentors, and serving on local Advisory Boards. NAF has the support of corporations, public policy makers and foundations, including the Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation. 

National Education Association
The National Education Association (NEA) is guided by its belief that great public schools are a basic right for every child.  As the nation's largest professional employee organization, NEA represents 3.2 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs.  Affiliate organizations function  in every state, as well as in more than 14,000 local communities across the United States. NEA understands that the world is changing, and we in education must change as well.  The NEA is a founding member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and is incorporating the partnership’s goals and framework into its work with its affiliates and members. NEA believes public education must prepare every student for success in career and life, and that our nation’s well being relies on our equipping all our children for the challenges of this century.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation

Oracle Education Foundation
The Oracle Education Foundation sponsors Think.com and ThinkQuest, free online programs for the primary and secondary education community. It also makes grants to select schools and nonprofits to bridge the digital divide and promote global collaborative learning with technology.

Pearson
Pearson is the global leader in educational publishing, assessment, information and services, helping people of all ages to learn at their own pace, in their own way. For students pre K-12, Pearson provides effective and innovative curriculum products in all available media, educational assessment and measurement for students and teachers, student information systems, and teacher professional development and certification programs. Pearson’s respected brands include Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, AGS, PowerSchool, SuccessMaker, TeacherVision, and many others.

PMI Educational Foundation
PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF) is a nonprofit charitable organization and the philanthropic arm of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading project management professional membership organization. PMIEF's goal is to leverage project management for social good. PMIEF provides programs for humanitarian, nonprofit and NGO organizations to increase their productivity, Project Management programs for youth to help them succeed in life and scholarship programs for students to realize their dreams through education. The Foundation offers tools and templates to teach students 21st century skills, project management and training scholarships for nonprofits as well as primary and secondary school teachers. For additional information visit www.pmief.org.

Scholastic Education
Scholastic Education develops research-based technology programs designed to close the most persistent gaps in achievement in grades pre-K through 12.  Grounded in the most current scientific research, programs such as READ 180, System 44 and Fastt Math have been documented and proven effective in multiple independent studies.  Scholastic Education also offers educational leaders a full suite of professional services to ensure success with all phases of program implementation, from planning through results analysis.

THINKronize
An Internet developer of award-winning K-12 educational products based in Cincinnati, OH, Thinkronize was founded in 1999 and grew out of a passion and commitment to enhancing teaching and learning with the Internet and standards-based online resources.  Thinkronize currently serves over 9.3 million students in 50 states, including adoptions by key districts and states nationwide making it one of the fastest growing companies in the education industry.

The Thinkronize mission is to enhance youth education with highly effective technologies, and flows directly from the company's Leadership Team, which has a strong personal commitment to significantly impacting and improving the educational process. The team's philosophy permeates all areas of the company and is a guidepost for all corporate decision making. 

Verizon
As a communications company, Verizon's business is built on a simple, powerful premise: The more people who are connected to a network, the more valuable the network is to those who use it. The same is true of human networks. An individual with passion and commitment can make a difference in a community, but a network of such people -- connected by information and communications technology to the larger global community -- multiplies those individual efforts into a much more powerful collective force.

Walt Disney Company