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News You Can Use

  • Daily News Roundup, February 22, 2012
    ABOUT K-12 REPORT SCRUTINIZES STATES' TEACHER-INDUCTION POLICIES Even as there are more and more novice teachers in the ranks of the profession, states' teacher induction policies are generally piecemeal,...
  • Daily News Roundup, February 21, 2012
    Some of the News Fit to Print ABOUT K-12 STRUGGLING TEACHERS TO BE SCORED BY INDEPENDENT OBSERVERS The key element in the agreement reached between the New York City teachers’ union and the city’s...
  • Daily News Roundup, February 17, 2012
    Some of the News Fit to Print ABOUT K-12 ‘VALUE-ADDED’ CONCEPT PROVES BENEFICIAL TO TEACHER COLLEGES The use of “value added” information appears poised to expand into the nation’s...

In the News

  • Toch writes for Kappan Magazine
    A DREAM DEFERRED Carnegie Senior Fellow Tom Toch writes in the March issue of Kappan Magazine: NCLB was a necessary if insufficient step towards the high common education standards of advanced industrialized nations...
  • Bryk Work Cited
    GETTING IT RIGHT ON SCHOOL TURNAROUNDS Gary Ratner writes in the Huffington Post: “Now that the Senate education committee has issued its bi-partisan ESEA reauthorization bill (Senate) and the Republican House...
  • Carnegie Colleagues on the Issues
    HOW TO EVALUATE TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS Carnegie Senior Fellow Tom Toch joins former Carnegie Board member Jason Kamras (chief of Human Capital for DC Schools) and Jonah Rockoff (a professor of business at Columbia...

What We're Reading

  • Toyota Kata: Making Improvement a Part of Everyday Work
    By John Ayers Sometimes learning something new and valuable first requires unlearning comfortable routines. Old dogs stumbling through new tricks often would do well to discard the old repertoire in order to gain...
  • Improving student success in community colleges
    COMMUNITY COLLEGE RESEARCH CENTER (CCRC) RELEASES NEW POLICY BRIEFS PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY COLLEGE COMPLETION: LEARNING FROM WASHINGTON STATE’S STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT INITIATIVE By Nancy...
  • Educational Innovation and Technology
    A New Look at Scale and Opportunity to Learn “There still remains room for optimism in technology’s ability to transform education, in part, because of its almost unique role in enhancing all students...

What's Happening

  • Claude Steele to deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
    Noted author and scholar Claude Steele will deliver the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Brown University on Feb. 1, 2012. His talk, titled “Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us...
  • Pathways Update: Good News from the Campuses
    Updates from Carnegie's Pathways blog. An Invitation In a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association of Community College Trustees in Dallas recently, Carnegie President Tony Bryk challenged...
  • A Carnegie Chat with Barnett Berry, May 11
    Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools—Now and in the Future   A Carnegie Chat with Barnett Berry May 11, 2011 4:00–6:00 p.m. Barnett Berry is founder and...

Perspectives

  • 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.   Guadalupe Valdés is a senior partner in the Carnegie...
  • Strengthening the Foundations of Students' Excellence, Integrity and Social Contribution
    Rather than treat analytical thinking, along with mastery of substantive content, as sufficient goals for higher education, the authors remind us that colleges should aim to teach students how to use knowledge and...
  • Assessing How Students Learn
    Educator Bill Cerbin argues that if the goal of higher education is to improve students' future performance, then the common practice of assessing what students have learned is not enough. What is also required is...

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