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What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics

Carnegie Senior Partner Jim Stigler and colleagues Karen B. Givvin and Belinda J. Thompson from the University of California, Los Angeles were commissioned by Carnegie to investigate what community college...
National Academy of Education Releases White Paper on Teacher Quality

The National Academy of Education (NAEd) has released a new white paper on teacher quality calling for improvements in teacher recruitment, preparation, and ongoing professional development. "It's clear that good...
College Enrollment Hits All-Time High, Fueled by Community Colleges

18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high in October 2008, driven by a recession-era surge in enrollments at community colleges, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly...

What We're Reading

Reflections on The Best Practice: Learning from the Emergence of Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Education Has Much to Learn From Healthcare Reform Efforts Reflections on The Best Practice: Learning from the Emergence of Quality Improvement in Healthcare In December 2008, Knowledge Alliance President Jim...
Here Comes Everybody

Clay Shirky evaluates the effect of the Internet on modern group dynamics. THE SHOCK OF INCLUSION Clay Shirky writes in his book, Here Comes Everybody: “The Internet has been in majority use in the developed...
Making Healthcare Better Has Lessons for Making Education Better

When looking for comparisons, people who want to change education often consider health systems. It can be an apt comparison. There is the crucial role of the professional at the center of the enterprise. You see the...

RFP: Educating Nurses and Physicians conference at Carnegie Foundation

The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching are hosting a conference on inter-professional education entitled Educating Nurses and Physicians: Toward New Horizons....
Carnegie to Host Convening on Improving Nursing Education and Pathways

Meeting to be held at One Dupont March 4th Building on and complementing its most recent national study of nursing education and resulting book, Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation, as well...
Multiple Pathways Through Math

Achieve just posted a video of a breakfast session that took place at the 2009 American Diploma Project Network Leadership Team Meeting in September. "Multiple Pathways Through High School Mathematics: Are There...

Daily News Roundup, March 18, 2010

Some of the News Fit to Print COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS MISS OUT ON GRANTS California community college students are leaving up to $500 million in federal financial aid on the table, money that could help cover books...
Daily News Roundup, March 17, 2010

Some of the News Fit to Print “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND” A TOXIC BRAND President Obama plans to overhaul the 'No Child Left Behind' law. Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings helped design...
Daily News Roundup, March 16, 2010

Some of the News Fit to Print INTEREST TURNS TO ESEA PLAN’S CHANCES OF PASSING Now that the Obama administration has unveiled its blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,...

Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE CARNEGIE NURSING STUDY The Carnegie nursing study team, Patricia Benner, Molly Sutphen, Lisa Day and Victoria Leonard, write in the Community College Times: As often happens with...
News about Carnegie

Carnegie Board member selected to advise President TATUM NAMED TO OBAMA’S HBCU BOARD OF ADVISORS President Barack Obama signed a new Executive Order re-establishing the White House Initiative on Historically...
News about Carnegie

Time for U.S. Professors of the Year Nominations NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR U.S. PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...

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Developing the Potential of All Students

An interview with Professor of Education at Stanford University Guadalupe Valdés on the challenges of teaching English language learners.