The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Is a National Organization

question 63

True/False

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that focuses on infusing 21^st century skills into education, as illustrated in the accompanying figure, and focuses on higher education, not K-12 education.

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Definitions:

Guinn V. United States

A landmark Supreme Court case in 1915 that declared certain grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voting rights unconstitutional, impacting African American voters.

Grandfather Clauses

Legal provisions allowing those who could vote before the Civil War, and their descendants, to bypass literacy tests and other voting barriers, effectively disenfranchising Black voters.

Fifteenth Amendment

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, that prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

NAACP

Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights group established to combat racism, lynching, and the segregation laws known as Jim Crow, aiming to improve the lives of people of color.