21st Century Secondary Schools

1. US Secondary Schools:

• Exemplar New Technology High Schools - web profiles of six exemplary New Tech High Schools
• Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
• High Tech High

2. UK Secondary Schools:

• Ninestiles School, Birmingham
• New Line Learning, Maidstone, Kent
• Homewood School, Tenterden, Kent
• Broughton Hall, Liverpool
• Leigh Technology Academy, Dartford, Kent
• Cramlington Learning Village, Cramlington, Northumberland

3. New Learning Environments for 21st Century Learners

4. Videos on 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills

5. New National Assessments for Higher Education and for High Schools (CWRA)

6. Articles by Bob Pearlman on 21st Century Schools and 21st Century Learning:

• Designing New Learning Environments to Support 21st Century Skills (PDF, downloadable), chapter by Bob Pearlman, in the new book, 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn
  
  
• Making 21st Century Schools: Creating Learner-Centered Schoolplaces/Workplaces for a New Culture of Students at Work, by Bob Pearlman, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY/September-October 2009
  
  
• “Reconsidering the Design of Schools through the Lens of Project-Based Learning” - Interview with Bob Pearlman, the Director of Strategic Planning for the New Technology Foundation, DesignShare and Education Facility Planning News, March, 2007
  
  
• "21^st Century Learning in Schools – A Case Study of New Technology High School in Napa, CA", published in New Directions for Youth Development, Volume 2006, Issue 110 (Summer 2006), Special Issue: The Case for Twenty-First Century Learning.
  
  
• "New Skills For A New Century: Project-based learning teaches kids the collaborative and critical thinking abilities they'll need to compete", Edutopia magazine, June 2006.
  
• "Redesign Schools for 21st Century Learning", Published in Five Riveting Ideas, EDTECH Focus on K-12 magazine, January-February, 2005
  
  
• "Getting it Done: Boston launches new 5-year technology, teaching & learning plan. Why not you?", article in Techlearning.Com, August 1, 2004
  
  
• "Designing, and Making, the New American High School", Technos Quarterly, Spring, 2002
  
  
• "Reinventing the High School Experience", Educational Leadership, April 2002
  
  
• "Designing the New American Schools", PDF, Communications of the ACM, May, 1993