News Sponsors 65th Annual Spelling Bee

The
oral spelling competition begins at 1:00 p.21stcenturyskills. The Partnership for
21st Century Skills is a tax-exempt 501 (c) 3 organization .

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3 billion
for U. school
districts have already begun or agreed to participate in online exchanges with
Chinese schools: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Dallas (Texas) East Hartford
(Connecticut) ,New York, Houston (Texas) Miami (Florida), Newark (New Jersey)
and San Antonio (Texas).

About ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc. All of the Partnership's resources are
freely available to educators, policymakers and individuals at
www.21stcenturyskills. and Verizon.

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W., Intel
Corporation , Junior Achievement Worldwide, Microsoft Corporation, National
Education Association, SAP, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Time Warner,
Inc.

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The competition helps students improve
their spelling , vocabulary, language and reading skills. educators and students. ePALS is working closely with partners and
education ministries worldwide to customize the matching process for each
participating country .

Based in Washington, DC and Tucson, Arizona, the Partnership for 21st
Century Skills is administered by Infotech Strategies.21stcenturyskills.

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ePALS Classroom Exchange to Connect Chinese and English-Speaking Students to
Exchange Culture and Practice Language Skills

NEW YORK, ePALS Classroom Exchange, the Internet's
largest collaborative classroom network, will launch a Chinese -English
Language and Learning Portal in September enabling its 103,000 global
classrooms to connect with Chinese schools in a teacher-supervised online
environment.
"Internet based cultural and language exchanges between classrooms is a
clear trend in global education technology," says Tim DiScipio.
Founded in 1996, ePALS Classroom Exchange (http://www.

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World's Largest Online Classroom Network Set to Launch Major Chinese-English Language and Learning Portal

The conference was hosted by Net Time and co-sponsored by the
National Association of Innovations, the Government of Shan'xi Province, and
the Department of Education of Shan'xi Province, The conference drew 1,200
attendees from 26 provinces and cities in China, including principals from 600
large and innovative schools , who met to discuss the use of IT in schools.
Teachers and students use the ePALS network for cross -cultural project
sharing, foreign language practice and international classroom-to-classroom
exchanges .

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The competition will draw 4th to 8th grade students from schools
throughout Colorado. Scripps
Co.

The Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post are published by the Denver
Newspaper Agency, which provides business services to the two newspapers under
a joint operating agreement .

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The winner of this
year's Spelling Bee will compete in the 78th Annual Scripps National Spelling
Bee in Washington D.com/china . Schools from the United Kingdom have also agreed to
participate .

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The company will integrate basic
Chinese and English language learning tools into the portal as well as the
company's proprietary school-safe, multi-lingual email and eMentoring tools to
power the collaboration between classrooms.
ePALS currently connects 4., Director, US-China Center for Research on Educational
Excellence at the College of Education, Michigan State University.

"The Science ICT Literacy Map is a practical tool that will help educators
enhance their lesson plans with 21st century skills and give students a
more thorough educational experience," said Gerald Wheeler, executive
director of the National Science Teachers Association. The ICT Literacy Maps are also currently available for
geography, mathematics and English.

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, owner of the Rocky Mountain News.D.

Contact:
Sheila Strickland
ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc. "These are practical tools
designed to enhance lesson plans and, ultimately, better prepare today's
students for tomorrow's workplace and the demands of global citizenry.

About the Partnership for 21st Century Skills

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a unique alliance of education,
business and government leaders committed to helping educators prepare
students for success in the 21st century .

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, Canada, the U., Australia,
New Zealand and Ireland with schools in China, enabling Chinese teachers and
students to practice English language skills while English-speaking schools
learn Chinese history, culture and language.6 million educators and students in
191 countries and receives 1,500 to 2,000 new school registrations each month
from teachers seeking to connect their students with foreign classrooms.

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These
exchanges have great potential in promoting cross-cultural understanding and
language learning for American and Chinese students alike. Approximately 1,500-2,000 teachers register with the ePALS Global
Network each month in order to connect with foreign classrooms. The map guides K-12 educators through a wide
range of learning skill examples, as emphasized in the Partnership's
report, Learning for the 21st Century, and cites specific student outcomes
demonstrating ICT Literacy success for grades four, eight and 12.

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, with a 50-word written test starting at 8:30 a .
The Spelling Bee is an educational program designed by the E. The
China Portal is an extension of the company's existing global network and the
first ePALS countrywide version.
In preparation for the September launch, ePALS is accepting registrations
for its China Portal from educators and administrators around the world at
http://www. Member organizations include:
Apple, Cable in the Classroom, Cisco Systems, Inc. More
information can be found at www.

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"ePALS is introducing
many Chinese students to common-use English and will help teachers in China
use web-based language teaching more effectively. "We are using
our large global classroom network and safe, multi-lingual technology to build
the backbone of educational communication, collaboration, language practice
and content delivery between China and the world's classrooms.epals.
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Releases Science ICT Literacy Map

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m. "We'd like our schools to share Texas history,
science , environmental issues, language, reading, writing and art with schools
in China. The
company supports over 2 million K-12 email and eMentor accounts and 15 million
page views to its site every month.: 1 (888) 770-3333 or 613 562-9847 x151
Email: sstrickland@epals.org

The Science ICT Literacy Map demonstrates how educators can develop science
lessons that combine 21st century learning skills, such as information and
communication skills, with 21st century tools, such as the Internet and
multi-media production tools.

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DENVER, Colorado elementary and junior high
students will gather at the Colorado Convention Center Saturday, March 19, for
the 65th annual Colorado State Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain
News.C."
The ePALS Chinese-English Language and Learning Portal will enable
teachers and students to communicate in a safe, supervised, and multilingual
electronic messaging environment.

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"We want to use Chinese culture as our theme for the year ", said Becky
Ernsberger, a school technology coordinator within the Dallas, Texas
Independent School District. Our trusted
brand combined with the interaction of our loyal teacher base contributes to
learning across the global curriculum spectrum, building literacy and language
skills, and preparing students for global challenges.6 million students and teachers in 191 countries.com

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the
leading advocacy organization transforming learning in the 21st century,
and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have worked
collaboratively to release the Science ICT Literacy Map, providing
educators with a framework for integrating 21st century skills into K-12
science education.

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"The Partnership's ICT Literacy Map series represents significant progress
in making the teaching and learning of core academic subjects more relevant
to the demands of the 21st century," said Douglas Levin, board member for
the Partnership and Director of Education Policy for the cable industry's
education foundation, Cable in the Classroom . "We are pleased to
have collaborated with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills on a tool
that is particularly valuable in helping science educators improve student
learning.org.

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"I believe
ePALS has the right image, momentum and technology to serve as a major
platform for exchanges between Chinese and U."
"ePALS helps my students learn English," said Yaodong Chen, an English
teacher at a school in Liuzhou, China, who has used ePALS to connect 500 of
his Chinese students with English speaking students. Looking at the
accelerated growth of electronic linkage between classrooms and its impact on
21st century learning, we project that within 2 years, three to four million
Chinese students will be using ePALS ' portal to participate in English
language and cross-cultural studies."
On May 25th, US Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Senator Lamar
Alexander of Tennessee introduced a bill that would appropriate $1.org.

Material and resources that are dedicated to the spoken and written language.

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m.S. Schools within the following major U.S.com ) is
the largest and fastest-growing online collaborative classroom network,
connecting more than 103,000 registered primary and secondary (K-12) schools
and classrooms, comprising 4. The Science ICT Literacy Map is the fourth in a series
of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Maps, which are
designed to help educators make the transition to 21st century teaching and
learning.

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Registration for the 270 pre-qualified competitors
begins at 7:00 a., in May. It will revolutionize EFL
(English as a Foreign Language) in China.

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, and is free to the public."

The Science ICT Literacy Map is the fourth in a series of ICT Literacy Maps
available to educators to assist them in integrating 21st century skills
into curricula.

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Initially , the focus will be on matching 60,000 English-speaking
primary and secondary / K-12 schools in the U.S.K.
"ePALS has extensive experience with developing tools for online
communities and managing online exchanges across different cultures," said
Yong Zhao, Ph."
The portal was pre-announced in April during a keynote address by Tim
DiScipio, Chairman and Co-founder of ePALS Classroom Exchange , in Xi'an, China
at The Third National Contest of Innovation and Practices of Information
Technologies for K-12 Education conference sponsored by the Chinese Ministry
of Education. -- Chinese cross-cultural exchanges (online and face-to-face and
Chinese language study in US schools.epalscorp. ePALS is the
pioneer and leader in school-safe email, eMentoring and web-browsing
technology for the global K-12 / primary and secondary education market.