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Readings, Reports, Essays
The Effects of Classroom Mathematics Teaching on Students’ Learning
By James Hiebert and Douglas A. Grouws. In Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. 2007.
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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. The essay builds off an earlier essay by Bryk and Gomez, “Ruminations on Reinventing an R&D Capacity for Educational Improvement," prepared for a 2007 American Enterprise Institute Conference.
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Kids Master Mathematics When They're Challenged But Supported
By Bernice Yeung. This article was also published in the Oct 2009: The Waldorf Way issue of Edutopia magazine as "Let 'Em Sweat."
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Learning Opportunities
By Katherine K. Merseth. This essay provides an overview of the three “learning opportunities” embedded in the instructional design of the Statway™and Quantway™ pathways — productive struggle, explicit connections to concepts, and deliberate practice.
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Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper
Carnegie President Tony Bryk and Senior Partner Uri Treisman write in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Math should be a gateway, not a gatekeeper, to a successful college education. Students must come to see math as an essential aspect of their everyday lives, no matter what their field of study. They need to think, "I can understand this, I can do this, this is important to know."
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Problem Solution Exploration Papers
A series of background papers devised to measure student success in community college developmental mathematics and to help identify problems of practice for potential future work.
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The Problem of Persistence
By David Bressoud. In Launchings, MAA Online, www.maa.org.
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Reconsider and Redesign Developmental Mathematics
A primer on Carnegie's new Pathways work.
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What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics
By James W. Stigler, Karen B. Givvin, and Belinda J. Thompson. In MathAMATYC Educator, Vol. 1, No. 3. May 2010.
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Videos
What We are Learning About Productive Persistence
Carnegie Foundation Fellow David Yeager presents the latest findings of Carnegie's work in productive persistence to the Quantway Networked Improvement Community™ Winter Institute. December 10, 2011.
(Running time: 1:17:43)
Quantitative Literacy
A panel discussion on quantitative literacy from the Quantway™ and Statway™ 2011 Summer Institute. Hosted by Rebecca Hartzler, senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation and introduced by Jane Muhich, director of Quantway™ and productive persistence at the Carnegie Foundation. Panelists include: Bernie Madison, University of Arkansas; Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College; and Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University.
(Running time: 32:17)
The Ties That Bind: Introductory Remarks
Carnegie President Anthony S. Bryk's opening remarks at the Quantway™ and Statway™ 2011 Summer Institute.
(Running time: 21:36)
Student Success and Productive Persistence
Carnegie’s David Yeager’s presentation on Student Success and Productive Persistence as part of the 2011 Winter Institutes.
(Running time: 30:50)
Mathematics Teaching and How to Improve It: Lessons from Research
Carnegie Senior Partner Jim Stigler presented on Mathematics Teaching and How to Improve It: Lessons from Research as part of the 2011 Winter Institutes.
(Running time: 41:32)
Innovation Through Improvement Networks: Transforming Education Practice in Community College Mathematics
The WestEd Board of Directors hosts an Annual Forum in San Francisco to explore enduring challenges confronting education and human development communities. The 2010 Forum, "Innovation Through Improvement Networks: Transforming Education Practice in Community College Mathematics," featured Carnegie President Tony Bryk, Uri Triesman and others who are exploring new ways of conducting education research and development pioneered by Bryk and Carnegie Senior Partner Louis Gomez. Presenters focused on developmental mathematics in community colleges as a specific issue to ground the discussion.
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On-Ramps to College: Building Paths to Success for All Students
A presentation to the 2009 ECS National Forum on Education Policy by Uri Treisman, executive director, Charles A. Dana Center and Carnegie senior partner.
Mathematics has been a burial ground for the aspirations of myriad students seeking upward mobility through higher education. What are the strategies states and large urban districts are using to create mathematics pathways that work for students who only a decade ago would not have taken high school algebra and geometry? We'll examine new course offerings and how they are scaled as well as promising approaches to modernizing high school and freshman college mathematics.
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