* Generation Next: Two-third of American students graduate high school unprepared. The future of American opportunity and prosperity rest on how we prepare the next generation of leaders...

* Classroom Tools 2.0 Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!

* Education 2.0 Knowledge Hub This is a list of websites and tools

* Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues.

*The Educatiuon Revolution: "The more the new technology soars, the more the need for holistic balance..."

* 3 Steps for 21st Century Learning: See more educational videos from TeacherTube Member teacherhacks at www.TeacherTube.com.

* Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

* The Rise of the Creative Class-- On Smart City Radio

* What is emergence ? Critically interacting components self-organize to form potentially evolving structures exhibiting a hierarchy of emergent system properties.

* Downside Up-- There is considerable evidence that practitioners in distressed communities across the country are using art, culture, and public space-oriented community development approaches to revitalize

Agile Organizations and World Peace Agile organizations are partnership organizations that achieve agility through excellence in process management, self organization, and multidisciplinary teamwork.

World At Work WorldatWork is the world's leading not-for-profit professional association dedicated to knowledge leadership in total rewards, compensation, benefits, and work-life.

AMERICAN SOLUTIONS--With our nation's unemployment rate at 10.2% percent, America's number one priority is job creation. We therefore petition Congress to oppose all job killing tax increases (especially in health and energy), and instead enact policies now that will help create new jobs in the private sector

Economic Research Institue Non-Profit Compensation Information & Data

The mission of Coastal Community Foundation is to foster philanthropy for the lasting good of the community. We commit to taking the broadest perspective of community,

Regional Eco Campus for the Arts -------See Green Paper

The American Distance Education Consortium: ADEC is a non-profit distance education consortium...

*Eco Campus: EcoCampus is an Environmental Management System (EMS) and award scheme for the higher education sector.

*ECO Campus.net:The aim of eco-campus.net is to actively support a sustainable development of universities, focussing on environmental issues.

Cultural & Education Links

The Creative Coast-- The Creative Coast Alliance (TCCa) is a non-profit organization supported by The City of Savannah and the Savannah Economic Development Authority...

*Pecha Kucha Night Beaufort Group: An international event that gives creative people the opportunity to be creative.
Each presenter is allowed 20 images...

*Pecha Kucha Night Charleston Group “Tonight has made me think twice about leaving the Charleston region.”

*New Carolina Org: SC must re-learn to compete. We must become a New Carolina. South Carolina's Council on Competitiveness is a public-private partnership...

*Community Service in Action The terms "community service" and "service learning" are often used interchangably. This special page offers definitions...

*Futurist Speaker.com: the-future-of-education/ National Conference of State Legislatures

The Plum Academy "...a different look at education, we use the terms "forum" and "facilitator" rather than "class" and "teacher", respectively.)"

*Path2 is a gifted and talented parent advocacy group working collaboratively with Beaufort County School District to promote a range of opportunities with support systems...

*The South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC) is an independent, nonpartisan group made up of 18...

*SC Gifted & Talented: The South Carolina State Board of Education recognizes the need to provide gifted education services to identified students in...

*HighScope - Mission and vision: Lifting lives through education.
HighScope Educational Research Foundation is an independent nonprofit research, development, training, and public outreach organization

*The Four Pillars of Education
 "These four pillars of knowledge cannot be anchored solely in one phase…"

*Economic Impact of the Arts in Beaufort County

*Cultural & Creative Industry Defined: "The phrase creative industries (or sometimes creative economy) refers to a set of interlocking industry sectors that focus on ..."

*Path2 is a gifted and talented parent advocacy group working collaboratively with Beaufort County School District to promote a range of opportunities with support systems...

*The South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC) is an independent, nonpartisan group made up of 18...

*SC Gifted & Talented: The South Carolina State Board of Education recognizes the need to provide gifted education services to identified students in...

* Project for Public Spaces (PPS) Civic spaces are an extension of the community. When they work well, they serve as a stage for our public lives. “When you focus on place you do everything differently.” Fred Kent

* Serve.gov  This summer, President Obama is calling on all of us – young and old, from every background, all across this country – to participate in our nation’s recovery and renewal by serving in our communities.

* HandsOn Network: We're Calling America to Get HandsOn! Get HandsOn aligns well with United We Serve.

* Knowledgeworks Foundation Over the next decade, the most vibrant innovations in education will take place outside traditional institutions. This 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning...

* Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in

education.

* The Upside of a Down Economy "...and perhaps most important, the rediscovery of meaningful ways to belong to a community." a report by Fred Kent

* Economic Impact of the Arts in Beaufort County

* Search Institute- The conference is designed for and by youth and community development practitioners as a place of inspiration, strengthening, deepening, and connecting.

*Microsoft School of the Future: Eric, a student at the School of the Future, talks about activities at the school and how he incorporates technology into his learning activities.

* Americans For The Arts : "Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America."

* Creative Communities.Org "...a shift towards policies that combine social and cultural objectives, and stimulate new forms of multidisciplinary practice."

* Youth Service America Improving communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young people, ages 5-25, serving in substantive roles.

* SC Arts Alliance: "This Creative Industries report offers a research-based approach to understanding the scope and economic importance of the arts in Beaufort County, SC."

* Community Arts Network : promoting information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based art

* Americorp Organization  AmeriCorps is your chance to put your ideals into action while learning new skills, making new connections, and earning money to pay for college. 

* Learn and Serve America supports and encourages service-learning throughout the United States , and enables over one million students to make meaningful contributions to their community while building their academic and civic skills.

*  Senior Corps connects today’s over 55s with the people and organizations that need them most.

* National Campaign to Hire Artists to Work in Schools and Communities Promoting the use of federal jobs stimulus funds to hire artists to work in schools, community centers and social institutions

* NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR A GREEN ARTS CORPS We propose the creation of a National Green Arts Corps. The major goal of the NGAC will be to create a program that employs artists to work with community centers, businesses, and Green Job Training Centers’ projects. In this way, artists can contribute, along with other sectors of the society, to developing long-range solutions to our nation’s aesthetic, environmental and economic development.

* The Music National Service Initiative (MNSI) is launching MusicianCorps™, a “musical Peace Corps” that calls and enables musicians to serve in: Underserved schools and communities to develop more successful students and youth;

Health care and therapeutic settings for patient recovery and improved functioning;

The public domain for increased civic engagement, volunteerism, diplomacy and peace.

*  UniteStateArtists.org- Granting: USA hopes to help close the gap between the love of art and the ambivalence toward artists in society.

* The Urban Institute Investing in Creativity: A study of the support structure for U.S. artists.

* Millenial Guideline Atlas is an innovative visualization of the Millennium Development Goals that complements the World Bank's MDGs website.

IRI Breaktrough Insights: New Trends Give Healthcare Manufacturers and Retailers New Headaches

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