The Achievement Standards Network is a JES & Co. project. JES & Co., a publicly funded 501c3 education research organization, is a leader in research and deployment of open standards. With over 15 years of experience in interoperability and portability of educational resources, organizations around the world come to JES & Co. to make things happen. Since its establishment in the early 1990s, JES & Co. has led and managed The Achievement Standards Network (ASN), The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (formerly known as GEM), the Dell Academy, the Intel Student Certification Program, and Microsoft’s Partners in Learning. Thousands of organizations worldwide use technical standards developed and refined by JES & Co. efforts which are subsequently made publicly available through open source initiatives.

The lead technical scientist of the ASN project is Stuart Sutton from the Information School at the University of Washington. Project Management is provided by JES & Co.’s Bruce Walker. Data services are led by JES & Co.’s Joseph Chapman. Project out reach is provided by Diny Golder, Executive Director of JES & Co.

The ASN is partially funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation: Grant: #0840740