Improvement Resources
Recommended readings and other resources to deepen your understanding of improvement science and networked improvement communities.
Our schools are getting better, but not nearly as rapidly as our aspirations for them are growing. Find out how Carnegie’s approach can help schools bridge the gap and learn to improve.
Carnegie Commons Blog
Quality Improvement Approaches: Positive Deviance
Addressing complex educational problems using positive deviance requires detective work. The task: to discover “outliers” who have succeeded under conditions where most others fail; uncover the strategies they use; and design opportunities to share those strategies.
Learn to Improve
Online Program in Improvement Science
The Carnegie Foundation is pleased to join the University of Michigan School of Education and edX in announcing the creation of a new certificate program in improvement science and networked improvement communities.
Improvement Voices
California’s Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities Seek to Improve Fifth-Grade Mathematics
California’s Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities seek to improve fifth-grade mathematics and triple students’ math proficiency on standardized test scores in just four years. An EdSource article overviews the challenge … Read more
Baltimore-Based Research-Practice Partnership Uses Improvement Science
An Education Week blog post, “The Case for Improvement Science,” illustrates the value of improvement science for a Baltimore-based research-practice partnership. The authors overview the usefulness of the six … Read more
Education Week Blog Post Provides Example of Improvement Science in Urban Education
The Education Week blog post, “Partnering to Improve: Insights from Baltimore,” provides insight into the six core principles of improvement in action in an urban education setting. These educators … Read more