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EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE WINS NATIONAL AWARD
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count and Lumina Foundation for Education announced that El Paso Community College (EPCC) has been honored with the third annual Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award. EPCC received the award during the opening of the annual Achieving the Dream Strategy Institute in Indianapolis, IN.

Innovation is about integration, Sullivan says.

INNOVATION ISN’T JUST ABOUT MATH

Quantway institution representatives begin work

WORK IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENTAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION COMMITS TO STUDENT SUCCESS
Representatives from eight community colleges in three states are now at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to kick off their participation in a program that aims to turn around the alarming failure rate of community college students in developmental mathematics. The selected colleges are:
Georgia
South Georgia College
East Georgia College
Gainesville State College

A Carnegie look at the scholarship of teaching and learning.

CARNEGIE AUTHORS FEATURED IN ISSOTL JOURNAL

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THE GROWTH OF FOR-PROFITS

Urban School Success is National Imperative

ORGANZING SCHOOLS SAID TO BE ‘MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH ON URBAN SCHOOL REFORM IN PAST DECADE’

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Continuous Improvement Methodology Holds Promise for Real Change in Education

Registration Now Open for Institutions to Apply for 2015 Community Engagement Classification

New Report on Productive Persistence: Pathways to Improvement

Carnegie Project to Examine Improvement Networks

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Getting Ideas into Action: Building Networked Improvement Communities in Education
In this Carnegie essay by Anthony Bryk, Louis Gomez and Alicia Grunow, the authors argue that the social organization of the research enterprise is badly broken and a very different alternative is needed. They instead support a science of improvement research and introduce the idea of a networked improvement community that creates the purposeful collective action needed to solve complex educational problems.

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Carnegie Perspectives Essays

Networked Improvement Communities: the Time is Right for the Ties that Bind

Carnegie Senior Partner Louis Gomez explores the tools and routines of networked communities for educational improvement.