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"n Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice," rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students learn key academic content, practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking), and..."

Framing the discussion in terms of his district's reform model - the "New 4 Rs" of rigor, relevance, relationships, and reflection - Sofo describes how one middle school developed a multifaceted, classroom-level intervention to support struggling learners.

From Ian McCoog on Twitter

We "mash up" top-notch researchers with experienced educators to generate new insights and uncommon sense about education. By taking rigorous research and blending it together with professional wisdom from experts, we create something more meaningful and reliable than either would be alone.

A new Promise needs to be created among educators, students, parents, policy makers and funders if all students are to make significant progress towards achieving rigorous and relevant 21st century academic standards and skills. The American public education system was never designed nor intended to function as an academic institution where success for all drove policy making and decisions regarding educational procedures and practices.

"In 2006 CFSD convened an advisory committee of business leaders, entrepreneurs, university personnel, students, parents, and teachers to consider the knowledge and skills our students will need when they complete their K-12 education. Their work, along with a rigorous review of pertinent research, forms the basis for our 21st century learning framework."