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Writing Over the Summer
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It’s summertime, and the livin’ is easy – perhaps too easy. It’s a well-known fact in education circles that students generally lose between 1-3 months of their acquired learning over summer vacation. As a result, this “summer slide” means that teachers must spend nearly the same amount of time reviewing and re-teaching material at the beginning of each school year.

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Smart Searching
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Two of the scariest words to a teenage student 20 years ago were “research” and “paper.” Even now, the words conjure up in my mind stacks of encyclopedias, piles of dimes for copies, and lots of time with the microfilm machine. Before “Googling” became a verb (I Googled it and found it in the Merriam-Webster dictionary), students did most of their research in libraries. Today’s students can answer their pressing life questions quickly and easily without ever setting foot in one.

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Gateway News 8-30-12


We are excited to announce that JES & Co. has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) and to develop new ASN services. Click here for more information about the grant: http://jesand.co/MVPkOF.

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (Gateway) is one of two projects managed and administered by JES & Co. The other project is the ASN. Both projects are tied very closely together. While the Gateway is the digital library, the ASN is the “connect the dots” piece between resources and standards. If you create a free account on the Gateway you can browse the Common Core State Standards and even search for resources by standard. The ASN...

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